Handle irregular time series input

[aufdenkampe]

Presently, HSP2 can not handle irregular time series as inputs.

Although irregular time series inputs are not common for HSPF, @bcous has found a historical set of WDM files where the input time series started at 1 hour intervals and then switched to 15 minute intervals. HSPF resamples all inputs to the model time step immediately prior to a run, so everything works fine in HSPF.

With the recent successful Rewrite readWDM.py to read by data group & block #21, we can properly read these and all other tested WDM. However, as @ptomasula commented (LimnoTech#21 (comment)), running HSP2 on those inputs will throw an error if tsfreq == None:

~/Documents/Python/limno.HSPsquared/HSP2/utilities.py in transform(ts, name, how, siminfo)
     78         pass
     79     elif tsfreq == None:     # Sparse time base, frequency not defined
---> 80         ts = ts.reindex(siminfo['tbase']).ffill().bfill()
     81     elif how == 'SAME':
     82         ts = ts.resample(freq).ffill()  # tsfreq >= freq assumed, or bad user choice

KeyError: 'tbase'

We have several options to fix this:

1. Drop higher frequency data
2. Fill entire time series to highest frequency, but how?
   • Fill options: NaN (or -999.0), previous value, interpolated value
3. Split into two time series
4. Modify HSP2.utilties.py code to handle it

We'll do option 1 in the short term (probably "manually"), but option 4 is probably the best long term fix.

This issue will track progress on option 4.