Weather Data Conversion To XML

Introduction

The NOAA has hosted DAILY GLOBAL HISTORICAL CLIMATOLOGY NETWORK (GHCN-DAILY) .dat files. Weather.gov has an RSS/XML feed that gives current weather sensor readings. Using the RSS feed as a template, the GHCN-DAILY historical information is used to generate past RSS feed XML documents. The process allows testing on a large set of information with out having to continually monitor the weather.gov site for all the weather details for years.

Detailed Description

Detailed GHDN-DAILY information: http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/readme.txt

The process takes a save folder for the data. The folder contains a several folders:

• all_xml_files (The generated xml files for a given package)
• downloads (All files taken from the NOAA HTTP site)
• dataset-[name] (all files related to a single dataset)

Examples commands

Building

Partitioning python weather_cli.py -x weather_example.xml

Linking