imddata

Download India Meteorological Department (IMD) gridded rainfall and minimum and maximum temperature data as netCDF files from your terminal.

Installation

$ pip install imddata

Usage

For usage instructions, run

$ imddata --help

example: download maximum temperature data

$ imddata --name tmax --syear 2020 --eyear 2022
$ ls
IMD_tmax_2020.nc
IMD_tmax_2021.nc
IMD_tmax_2022.nc

example: download minimum temperature data

$ imddata --name tmin --syear 2020 --eyear 2022
$ ls
IMD_tmin_2020.nc
IMD_tmin_2021.nc
IMD_tmin_2022.nc

example: download rainfall data

$ imddata --name rain --syear 2020 --eyear 2022
$ ls
IMD_rain_2020.nc
IMD_rain_2021.nc
IMD_rain_2022.nc

Download with a custom filename prefix:

$ imddata --name tmin --syear 2020 --eyear 2022 --filename-prefix tmin_data
$ ls
tmin_data_2020.nc
tmin_data_2021.nc
tmin_data_2022.nc