This notebook contains everything you need to create a nice neat list of meta data dictionaries out of netcdf files. In this case we have made one meta data dictionary for each day in a five year span. The dictionaries are only created when there is data available on the given day, and there are up to 8 datafiles represented on each day. Each files contains data from various sensors and that is reported out in a whole slew of variables. Each variable has attributes associated with it in the netcdf file. These attributes are carried over into the dict and other attributes are added, such as a flag variable that can be raised for various problematic data situations (missing data, unreasonable data, ...)
What we want is the output to be a dict for each of the following: Variable, File, Metadata. The functions that generate each of these will be called from the parse_netcdf function. Then the dicts will be fed into the classes and output to the database.
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from __future__ import print_function
import pandas as pd
import datetime as dt
import numpy as np
import os
import xray
from posixpath import join
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from flask.ext.mongoengine import MongoEngine
db = MongoEngine()
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ROOTDIR = 'C:/Users/Julia/Documents/GitHub/MpalaTower/raw_netcdf_output/'
data = 'Table1'
datas = ['upper', 'Table1', 'lws', 'licor6262', 'WVIA',
'Manifold', 'flux', 'ts_data', 'Table1Rain']
non_static_attrs = ['instrument', 'source', 'program', 'logger']
static_attrs = ['station_name', 'lat', 'lon', 'elevation',
'Year', 'Month', 'DOM', 'Minute', 'Hour',
'Day_of_Year', 'Second', 'uSecond', 'WeekDay']
# Setting expected ranges for units. It is ok to include multiple ways of writing
# the same unit, just put all the units in a list
flag_by_units = {}
temp_min = 0
temp_max = 40
temp = ['Deg C', 'C']
for unit in temp:
flag_by_units.update({unit : {'min' : temp_min, 'max' : temp_max}})
percent_min = 0
percent_max = 100
percent = ['percent', '%']
for unit in percent:
flag_by_units.update({unit : {'min' : percent_min, 'max' : percent_max}})
shf_min = ''
shf_max = ''
shf = ['W/m^2']
shf_cal_min = ''
shf_cal_max = ''
shf_cal = ['W/(m^2 mV)']
batt_min = 11
batt_max = 240
batt = ['Volts', 'V']
for unit in batt:
flag_by_units.update({unit : {'min' : batt_min, 'max' : batt_max}})
PA_min = 15
PA_max = 25
PA = ['uSec']
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def process_netcdf(input_dir, data, f, static_attrs):
ds = xray.Dataset()
ds = xray.open_dataset(join(input_dir, data, f),
decode_cf=True, decode_times=True)
df = ds.to_dataframe()
# drop from df, columns that don't change with time
exclude = [var for var in static_attrs if var in df.columns]
df_var = df.drop(exclude, axis=1) # dropping vars like lat, lon
# get some descriptive statistics on each of the variables
df_summ = df_var.describe()
return ds, df_summ
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class Variable(db.EmbeddedDocument):
timestep_count = db.IntField()
flags = db.ListField(db.StringField())
name = db.StringField(db_field='var')
units = db.StringField()
count = db.IntField()
avg_val = db.FloatField(db_field='mean') # Avoid function names
std_val = db.FloatField(db_field='std')
min_val = db.FloatField(db_field='min')
max_val = db.FloatField(db_field='max')
p25th = db.FloatField(db_field='25%')
p75th = db.FloatField(db_field='75%')
content_type = db.StringField(db_field='content_coverage_type')
coordinates = db.StringField()
comment = db.StringField()
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def generate_flags(var, flag_by_units):
# check status of data and raise flags
flags = []
if var.timestep_count*11/12 < var.count < var.timestep_count:
flags.append('missing a little data')
elif var.timestep_count < var.count <= var.timestep_count*11/12:
flags.append('missing some data')
elif var.timestep_count/12 <= var.count <= var.timestep_count/2:
flags.append('missing lots of data')
elif var.count == 0:
flags.append('no data')
try:
if var.name.startswith('del'):
pass
elif var.comment == 'Std': # don't check std_dev
pass
else:
if var.max_val > flag_by_units[var.units]['max']:
flags.append('contains high values')
if var.min_val < flag_by_units[var.units]['min']:
flags.append('contains low values')
except:
pass
return flags
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def generate_variable(ds, df_summ, var, flag_by_units):
if df_summ[var]['count'] != 0:
this_variable = Variable(
name=var,
timestep_count=len(ds['time']),
count=df_summ[var]['count'],
avg_val=df_summ[var]['mean'],
std_val=df_summ[var]['std'],
min_val=df_summ[var]['min'],
p25th=df_summ[var]['25%'],
p75th=df_summ[var]['75%'],
max_val=df_summ[var]['max'],
units=ds[var].attrs['units'],
comment=ds[var].attrs['comment'],
coordinates=ds[var].attrs['coordinates'],
content_type=ds[var].attrs['content_coverage_type'],
)
else:
this_variable = Variable(
name=var,
timestep_count=len(ds['time']),
count=df_summ[var]['count']
)
this_variable.flags = generate_flags(this_variable, flag_by_units)
return this_variable
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class File(db.EmbeddedDocument):
source = db.StringField()
instrument = db.StringField()
datafile = db.StringField()
filename = db.StringField()
frequency = db.FloatField()
frequency_flag = db.StringField()
# The File object contains a list of Variables:
variables = db.EmbeddedDocumentListField(Variable)
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def convert_to_sec(num, units):
if units.startswith(('Min','min')):
out = int(num)*60
elif units.startswith(('ms', 'mS')):
out = float(num)/1000
elif units.startswith(('s','S')):
out = int(num)
else:
print('couldn\'t parse units')
return (num, units)
return out
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def programmed_frequency(f, this_file):
data = f['data']
program = this_file.source.split('CPU:')[1].split(',')[0]
try:
prog = open(join(f['dir'], 'programs', program))
except:
freq_flag = 'program: %s not found' % program
freq = float('nan')
return freq_flag, freq
lines = prog.readlines()
i= 0
k = 0
interval = None
DT = 'DataTable'
DI = 'DataInterval'
CT = 'CallTable'
for i in range(len(lines)):
if lines[i].split()[0:] == [DT, data]:
k = i
if lines[i].split()[0:1] == DI and i <= (k+2):
interval = lines[i].split(',')[1]
units = lines[i].split(',')[2]
i +=1
if interval == None:
i = 0
for i in range(len(lines)):
if lines[i].split()[0:1] == 'Scan':
interval = lines[i].split('(')[1].split(',')[0]
units = lines[i].split(',')[1]
if lines[i].split()[0:2] == [CT, data] and i <= (k+7):
interval = interval
units = units
else:
interval = None
units = None
i +=1
if interval == None:
freq_flag = 'could not find interval in %s' % program
freq = 'nan'
return freq_flag, freq
try:
num = int(interval)
except:
for line in lines:
if line.startswith('Const '+interval):
a = line.split('=')[1]
b = a.split()[0]
num = int(b)
freq = convert_to_sec(num, units)
freq_flag = 'found frequency'
return freq_flag, freq
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def generate_file(f, ds, df_summ, flag_by_units):
this_file = File(
source=ds.attrs['source'],
instrument=ds.attrs['instrument'],
filename=f['filename']
)
freq_flag, freq = programmed_frequency(f, this_file)
this_file.frequency = float(freq)
this_file.frequency_flag = freq_flag
variables = []
for var in df_summ:
variables.append(generate_variable(ds, df_summ, var, flag_by_units))
this_file.variables = variables
return this_file
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class Metadata(db.Document):
license = db.StringField()
title = db.StringField()
creator = db.StringField(db_field='creator_name', default='Kelly Caylor')
creator_email = db.EmailField()
institution = db.StringField()
aknowledgements = db.StringField()
feature_type = db.StringField(db_field='featureType')
year = db.IntField(required=True)
month = db.IntField(required=True)
doy = db.IntField(required=True)
date = db.DateTimeField(required=True)
summary = db.StringField()
conventions = db.StringField()
naming_authority = db.StringField() # or URLField?
# The Metadata object contains a list of Files:
files = db.EmbeddedDocumentListField(File)
meta = {
'collection': 'metadata',
'ordering': ['-date'],
'index_background': True,
'indexes': [
'year',
'month',
'doy',
]
}
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def generate_metadata(self, input_dir, ds):
self.license = ds.attrs['license']
self.title = ds.attrs['title']
self.creator=ds.attrs['creator_name']
self.creator_email=ds.attrs['creator_email']
self.institution=ds.attrs['institution']
self.aknowledgements=ds.attrs['acknowledgement']
self.feature_type=ds.attrs['featureType']
self.summary=ds.attrs['summary']
self.conventions=ds.attrs['Conventions']
self.naming_authority=ds.attrs['naming_authority']
return self
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def find_dates(self, input_dir, datas):
data_list = []
data_dict = None
start = '2010-01-01'
end = dt.datetime.utcnow()
rng = pd.date_range(start, end, freq='D')
for date in rng:
i = 0
y = date.year
m = date.month
d = date.dayofyear
f = 'raw_MpalaTower_%i_%03d.nc' % (y, d)
if any(f in os.listdir(join(input_dir, data)) for data in datas):
data_dict = {'year': y, 'month' : m, 'doy': d, 'date' : date, 'files': []}
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def find_files(this_metadata, datas):
f = 'raw_MpalaTower_%i_%03d.nc' % (this_metadata.year, this_metadata.doy)
for data in datas:
if f in os.listdir(join(input_dir, data)):
this_file.datafile = data
this_file.filename = f
this_metadata.files.append.(this_file)
return this_metadata
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from flask.ext.mongoengine import MongoEngine
db = MongoEngine()
db.connect(host='mongodb://joey:joejoe@dogen.mongohq.com:10097/mpala_tower_metadata')
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ds, df_summ = process_netcdf(data_dict['files'][0]['dir'],
data_dict['files'][0]['data'],
data_dict['files'][0]['filename'],
static_attrs)
this_metadata = generate_metadata(data_dict, ds)
for f in data_dict['files']:
print(f['filename'],f['data'])
ds, df_summ = process_netcdf(f['dir'], f['data'], f['filename'], static_attrs)
this_file = generate_file(f, ds, df_summ, flag_by_units)
this_metadata.files.append(this_file)
this_metadata.save()
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