IMD Environmental Setting Climate Toolkit: User Guide and Documentation. Version 2.1.3.
Nelson L. 2019. IMD Environmental Setting Climate Toolkit: User Guide and Documentation. Version 2.1.3.. NPS Inventory and Monitoring Division
The Environmental Setting Climate 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 release includes enhancements to run count and departure metrics. Also, daily flag data requests were added. Updates were made to station response, adding climate division and county FIPS code. Implemented testing framework. These capabilities will be added to the Python section of the Toolkit in the next release. For version 2.1.3, the ESToolkit is written in R as a package. Subsequent versions will be written in both R and Python (as a library). This toolkit began as the IM_Climate toolkit (2016-2017). This version retains the original capabilities of the IM_Climate toolkit. For examples of protocol metrics, see ES_StationMetricExamples.pdf and ES_GriddedMetricExamples.pdf files in the ES_Toolkit_R folder. The R version of the toolkit includes extensive RDoc documentation. To install the Toolkit package in R, 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. We do not support a graphical user interface (GUI) for the Toolkit. 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. Gridded data is accessible from ACIS and non-index gridded metrics are generated from 800m PRISM source.
- Type
- Software
- Authors
- Nelson, Lisa
- Date of Issue
- 2019-05-31
- Publisher
- NPS Inventory and Monitoring Division
- 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 2.1.1.
- IMD Environmental Setting Toolkit: User Guide and Documentation. Version 2.0.
- 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.