clean, simple and fast access to public hydrology and climatology data
- retrieves and parses datasets from the web
- returns simple python data structures that can be easily pulled into more sophisticated tools for analysis
- caches datasets locally and harvests updates as needed
Currently, ulmo supports the following datasets / services:
- Climate Prediction Center Weekly Drought Monitor
- CUAHSI WaterOneFlow
- National Climatic Data Center Climate Index Reference Sequential (CIRS)
- National Climatic Data Center Global Summary of the Day
- National Climatic Data Center Global Historical Climatology Network
- Texas Weather Connection's Daily Keetch-Byram Drought Index
- US Army Corps of Engineers Tulsa District Water Control
- United States Geological Survey National Water Information System
Support for the following datasets is currently under development and they should be available soon:
- National Weather Service 24-hour Precip (4 km grid)
A list of future datasets is kept in on the issue tracker. If there's a dataset you'd like to see added, please open an issue about it.
- Documentation: http://ulmo.readthedocs.org
- Repository: https://github.com/twdb/ulmo