This module is designed to allow you to query and download Nexrad radar files from Amazon Web Services S3 Storage. The real-time feed and full historical archive of original resolution (Level II) NEXRAD data, from June 1991 to present, is now freely available on Amazon S3 for anyone to use. More information can be found here https://aws.amazon.com/public-datasets/nexrad/.
nexradaws supports Python 2.7 and Python 3.6.
Github - https://github.com/aarande/nexradaws
PyPi - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/nexradaws
Docs - http://nexradaws.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Required dependencies
- boto3
- pytz
- six
Optional dependencies
- pyart
Install with pip::
pip install nexradaws
New in version 1.1:
- Bug fix for varying filename extensions over the years (.gz .V06 etc). Thanks Nick Guy for the PR!