Python Data Access Framework for AWIPS II

Install

• pip install python-awips

Requirements

• Python 2.7 or later
• pip install numpy shapely

From Github

• git clone https://github.com/Unidata/python-awips.git
• cd python-awips
• python setup.py install

Install for AWIPS II Python

AWIPS II >=15.1.3 (March 2016) has python-awips installed in /awips2/python, as well as a full meteorological data stack (metpy, matplotlib, numpy, etc).

For AWIPS II systems 15.1.2 and lower:

• wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py -O - | /awips2/python/bin/python
• /awips2/python/bin/easy_install pip
• /awips2/python/bin/pip install python-awips

Grid Inventory

A short script to request available grid names from an EDEX server:

#!python
from awips.dataaccess import DataAccessLayer

# Set host
DataAccessLayer.changeEDEXHost("edex-cloud.unidata.ucar.edu")

# Init data request
request = DataAccessLayer.newDataRequest()

# Set datatype
request.setDatatype("grid")

#
# getAvailableLocationNames method will return a list of all available models
#
# LocationNames mean different things to different plugins beware...radar is icao,
# satellite is sector, etc
#
available_grids = DataAccessLayer.getAvailableLocationNames(request)
for grid in available_grids:
    print grid

Documentation

• http://python-awips.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
• Jupyter Notebook Examples