APIs and OSS

NOAA

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) provides various datasets related to climate, weather, and environmental data. In this project, we use the NOAA Global Historical Climatology Network Daily (GHCND) dataset to fetch temperature data from the nearest weather station.

To see a list of all NOAA stations: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/ghcnd-stations.txt

NCEI Data API Documentation: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/support/access-data-service-api-user-documentation

NCEI Search (datasets) API Documentation: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/support/access-search-service-api-user-documentation

NCEI Management (for metadata) API Documentation: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/support/access-support-service

NCEI Order API Documentation: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/support/access-order-service

• you'll need to buy a dataset w/ NOAA account that has the API key
• most datasets are free

NCEI GitHub: https://github.com/NCEI-NOAAGov

FCPG Tools: https://fcpgtools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cookbook.html

• produce pre-computed girds of upstream basin characteristics

Other Github Repos

Flow Forecast

https://github.com/AIStream-Peelout/flow-forecast

• LSTM flow forecasting
• run pretrained model in inference mode: https://flow-forecast.readthedocs.io/en/latest/inference.html
• download the model with the model's ID using flow-forecast's pip package
  • Find ID and model config file in the public wandb.io training run's
  • download model as ONYX
  • DA-RNN is easiest model to use (minimal features)
  • model feature inputs: historical tempature, ....