IMD Environmental Setting Toolkit: User Guide and Documentation. Version 2.0.
Inventory and Monitoring Division. 2018. IMD Environmental Setting Toolkit: User Guide and Documentation. Version 2.0.
The Environmental Setting Toolkit (ESToolkit) functions request weather stations and gridded data (PRISM) around NPS parks and weather observation data for metrics used in the national IMD Environmental Setting protocol from Applied Climate Information System (ACIS) webservices ( http://www.rcc-acis.org/docs_webservices.html ) . The generic functions findStation(), getWxObservations(), and getGrids() can be used independently of the protocol to get stations and data for non-protocol use. In other words, the data responses are not limited to the metrics of the protocol. This toolkit began as the IM_Climate toolkit (2016-2017). For version 2.0, the ESToolkit is written in R as a package. Subsequent versions will be written in both R and Python (as a library). This version retains the original capabilities of the IM_Climate toolkit. For examples of protocol metrics, see the RMarkdown notebook ES Toolkit Example.rmd. The R version of the toolkit includes extensive RDoc documentation. To install the Toolkit package, use the instructions in the README file in the ESToolkit_R folder. The purpose of the Environmental Setting Toolkit is to provide all NPS staff: ● Access to weather and climate data from a consistent and IMD-sanctioned data repository(ies) ● Consistent logic for pulling and aggregating climate data, regardless of the tool being used ● Functionality tailored to the specific needs of the NPS (e.g., searching by park unit, generating raw data for the draft Environmental Setting protocol) Development of this Toolkit is iterative. With each release, we plan to build on functionality based on defined priorities. Furthermore, we will address bugs and enhancements as the user community reports them. Because this is the first release/iteration of the toolset, functionality is rather limited. We do not currently support a graphical user interface (GUI). Therefore, the current user community will be limited to more advanced developers familiar with the R or Python integrated development environments (IDE). For data sources, we focus only on the existing ACIS web services ( http://www.rcc-acis.org/docs_webservices.html ) for station information and station data.
- Type
- Software
- Authors
- Inventory and Monitoring Division
- Date of Issue
- 2018-03-23
- Units
- IMD
- Keywords
- ACIS web services, code, toolkit
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Air and Climate | Weather and Climate | Weather and Climate
Other versions
- IMD Environmental Setting Climate Toolkit: User Guide and Documentation. Version 2.1.3.
- IMD Environmental Setting Climate Toolkit: User Guide and Documentation. Version 2.1.1.
- IMD Climate Package: User Guide and Documentation. Version 1.5.
- IMD Climate Package: User Guide and Documentation. Version 1.3.
- IMD Climate Package: User Guide and Documentation. Version 1.2.
- IMD Climate Package: User Guide and Documentation. Version 1.1.
- IMD Climate Package: User Guide and Documentation. Version 1.0.