IO Tools

Functions for retrieving, reading, and writing data from a variety of sources and file formats relevant to solar energy modeling.

iotools.read_tmy2(filename)	Read a TMY2 file in to a DataFrame.
iotools.read_tmy3(filename[, coerce_year, …])	Read a TMY3 file in to a pandas dataframe.
iotools.read_epw(filename[, coerce_year])	Read an EPW file in to a pandas dataframe.
iotools.parse_epw(csvdata[, coerce_year])	Given a file-like buffer with data in Energy Plus Weather (EPW) format, parse the data into a dataframe.
iotools.read_srml(filename)	Read University of Oregon SRML 1min .tsv file into pandas dataframe.
iotools.read_srml_month_from_solardat(…[, …])	Request a month of SRML data from solardat and read it into a Dataframe.
iotools.read_surfrad(filename[, map_variables])	Read in a daily NOAA SURFRAD file.
iotools.read_midc(filename[, variable_map, …])	Read in National Renewable Energy Laboratory Measurement and Instrumentation Data Center weather data.
iotools.read_midc_raw_data_from_nrel(site, …)	Request and read MIDC data directly from the raw data api.
iotools.read_ecmwf_macc(filename, latitude, …)	Read data from ECMWF MACC reanalysis netCDF4 file.
iotools.get_ecmwf_macc(filename, params, …)	Download data from ECMWF MACC Reanalysis API.
iotools.read_crn(filename)	Read a NOAA USCRN fixed-width file into pandas dataframe.
iotools.read_solrad(filename)	Read NOAA SOLRAD fixed-width file into pandas dataframe.
iotools.get_psm3(latitude, longitude, …[, …])	Retrieve NSRDB PSM3 timeseries weather data from the PSM3 API.
iotools.read_psm3(filename)	Read an NSRDB PSM3 weather file (formatted as SAM CSV).
iotools.parse_psm3(fbuf)	Parse an NSRDB PSM3 weather file (formatted as SAM CSV).
iotools.get_pvgis_tmy(latitude, longitude[, …])	Get TMY data from PVGIS.
iotools.read_pvgis_tmy(filename[, …])	Read a file downloaded from PVGIS.
iotools.get_pvgis_hourly(latitude, longitude)	Get hourly solar irradiation and modeled PV power output from PVGIS.
iotools.read_pvgis_hourly(filename[, …])	Read a PVGIS hourly file.
iotools.get_bsrn(station, start, end, …[, …])	Retrieve ground measured irradiance data from the BSRN FTP server.
iotools.read_bsrn(filename[, logical_records])	Read a BSRN station-to-archive file into a DataFrame.
iotools.parse_bsrn(fbuf[, logical_records])	Parse a file-like buffer of a BSRN station-to-archive file.
iotools.get_cams(latitude, longitude, start, …)	Retrieve time-series of radiation and/or clear-sky global, beam, and diffuse radiation from CAMS.
iotools.read_cams(filename[, integrated, …])	Read a CAMS Radiation or McClear file into a pandas DataFrame.
iotools.parse_cams(fbuf[, integrated, …])	Parse a file-like buffer with data in the format of a CAMS Radiation or McClear file.

A Location object may be created from metadata in some files.

location.Location.from_tmy(tmy_metadata[, …])	Create an object based on a metadata dictionary from tmy2 or tmy3 data readers.
location.Location.from_epw(metadata[, data])	Create a Location object based on a metadata dictionary from epw data readers.

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