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NAME
hurdat
FILE
/home/cannon/CMSC162/python-hurdat.github/hurdat.py
DESCRIPTION
hurdat.py
W. Cannon Matthews III - 01/27/13
A library to parse the HURDAT storm data provided by the NOAA
into a easy to use python Object
CLASSES
DailyData
QuarterlyRecord
Storm
class DailyData
| Class to hold each daily record, contains 4 QuarterlyRecords
| in the quartersDict
|
| Methods defined here:
|
| __init__(self, date, quarters)
class QuarterlyRecord
| class to hold each of the 4 readings per day
|
| Methods defined here:
|
| __init__(self, stage, lat, long, wind, press)
class Storm
| Represents a storm, has a list of DailyData, and all the whole
| storm attributes
|
| Methods defined here:
|
| __init__(self, date, days, s_number, total_num, name, us_hit, hit_cat)
|
| saffir_simpson_days(self)
| Multiply the SSS Catagory times the length of time it spent
| there, then add it up for a somewhat silly heuristic data
| analysis.
FUNCTIONS
knots_to_mph(knots)
given speed in knots, return float in mph
mph_to_sscat(mph)
given wind speed in mph, return the Saffir-Simpson-Scale
Catagory [1-5], 0 for tropical storms
parse()
this fucntion parses the file, returns a list of all the storms
parses every field in the data file
assumes file in current directory called 'hurdat.txt' exists
and is NOAA's HURDAT format
like:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/hurdat/hurdat_atlantic_1851-2011.txt
see also for explaination of format :
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/data_sub/hurdat.html