tamu_met_products Python package provides utilities for creating forecasting products for

• Compatible with Python3.6+

Whenever it's possible, please always use the latest version from the repository. To install it using pip:

pip install git+https://github.com/kms22134/tamu_met_products

• awips_model_utils.py

  Contains functions to download model data using python-awips DataAccessLayer. Some notes on how times and levels work in awips follow, as their documentation is a little lacking.

  • Times

    A large variety of times exists in terms of valid periods. I found it is key to check the valid period duration (seconds) to determine the types of data that will be available given the time; 6 hr accumulated precip will only be available for time periods of 6 hours. To check the duration, run the following

      time.getValidPeriod().duration()
    

    which will return a time in seconds.

  • Levels

    To the the short form of the units (i.e. MB or SFC), one needs to access the .masterLevel.name attribute of the class.

    It is also good to check the .levelonevalue and .leveltwovalue. If the level class represents a layer, .leveltwovalue will be -999999.0; a check for < 0 will work nicely.

tamu_met_products is released under the terms of the GNU GPL v3 license.