Climate Index

Download and visulize climate indices from NOAA website http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/gcos_wgsp/Timeseries/

Major APIs:

• print_database(): print information of the available climate indices (e.g. long_name, url).
• get_climate_index(climate_index_name=None): get the climate index as a pandas Series instance (if None, print the database).
• plot_climate_index(climate_index_name): plot the climate index time series.

Notebook Examples

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/wy2136/climate_index/blob/master/climate_index.ipynb

Documentation

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16364556/climate_index_doc/html/index.html