act.discovery.get_asos_data¶
- act.discovery.get_asos_data(time_window, lat_range=None, lon_range=None, station=None)[source]¶
Returns all of the station observations from the Iowa Mesonet from either a given latitude and longitude window or a given station code.
- Parameters:
time_window (tuple) – A 2 member list or tuple containing the start and end times. The times must be python datetimes.
lat_range (tuple) – The latitude window to grab all of the ASOS observations from.
lon_range (tuple) – The longitude window to grab all of the ASOS observations from.
station (str) – The station ID to grab the ASOS observations from.
- Returns:
asos_ds (dict of xarray.Datasets) – A dictionary of ACT datasets whose keys are the ASOS station IDs.
Examples
If you want to obtain timeseries of ASOS observations for Chicago O’Hare Airport, simply do:
$ time_window = [datetime(2020, 2, 4, 2, 0), datetime(2020, 2, 10, 10, 0)] $ station = "KORD" $ my_asoses = act.discovery.get_asos(time_window, station="ORD")