tsgettoolbox.tsgettoolbox.ncei_precip_hly

tsgettoolbox.tsgettoolbox.ncei_precip_hly(stationid, start_date=None, end_date=None)

global:station::H:NCEI hourly precipitation

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For every datatype and record there is a set of meta-data flags. For the GHCNDMS dataset, the flags are:

'Total Missing','Consecutive Missing'

Total Missing:

Defined as total number of days observation/element is missing in that month. This can be taken as a measure of quality or completeness as the higher the number of days sampled in the month, the more representative the value is for the entire month.

Consecutive Missing:

Defined as the maximum number of consecutive days in the month that an observation/element is missing.

Parameters:

• stationid – The station id. from the first column of https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/ghcnd-stations.txt

• start_date (str) –

  [optional, defaults to first date in time-series, input filter]

  The start_date of the series in ISOdatetime format, or ‘None’ for beginning.

• end_date (str) –

  [optional, defaults to last date in time-series, input filter]

  The end_date of the series in ISOdatetime format, or ‘None’ for end.