act.discovery.download_noaa_psl_data

act.discovery.download_noaa_psl_data(site=None, instrument=None, startdate=None, enddate=None, hour=None, output=None)

Function to download data from the NOAA PSL Profiler Network Data Library https://psl.noaa.gov/data/obs/datadisplay/

Parameters:

• site (str) – 3 letter NOAA site identifier. Required variable

• instrument (str) –

  Name of the dataset to download. Options currently include (name prior to -). Required variable

  ‘Parsivel’ - Parsivel disdrometer data ‘Pressure’, ‘Datalogger’, ‘Net Radiation’, ‘Temp/RH’, ‘Solar Radiation’ - Surface meteorology/radiation data ‘Tipping Bucket’, ‘TBRG’, ‘Wind Speed’, ‘Wind Direction’ - Surface meteorology/radiation data ‘Wind Speed and Direction’ - Surface meteorology/radiation data ‘GpsTrimble’ - GPS Trimble water vapor data ‘Radar S-band Moment’ - 3 GHz Precipitation Profiler moment data ‘Radar S-band Bright Band’ - 3 GHz Precipitation Profiler bright band data ‘449RWP Bright Band’ - 449 MHz Wind Profiler bright band data ‘449RWP Wind’ - 449 MHz Wind Profiler wind data ‘449RWP Sub-Hour Wind’ - 449 MHz Wind Profiler sub-hourly wind data ‘449RWP Sub-Hour Temp’ - 449 MHz Wind Profiler sub-hourly temperature data ‘915RWP Wind’ - 915 MHz Wind Profiler wind data ‘915RWP Temp’ - 915 MHz Wind Profiler temperature data ‘915RWP Sub-Hour Wind’ - 915 MHz Wind Profiler sub-hourly wind data ‘915WP Sub-Hour Temp’ - 915 MHz Wind Profiler sub-hourly temperature data ‘Radar FMCW Moment’ - FMCW Radar moments data ‘Radar FMCW Bright Band’ - FMCW Radar bright band data

• startdate (str) – The start date of the data to acquire. Format is YYYYMMDD. Required variable

• enddate (str) – The end date of the data to acquire. Format is YYYYMMDD

• hour (str) – Two digit hour of file to dowload if wanting a specific time

• output (str) – The output directory for the data. Set to None to make a folder in the current working directory with the same name as datastream to place the files in.

Returns:

files (list) – Returns list of files retrieved