/seasonal-precipitation-calculator

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Tool for calculating seasonal precipitation

This project is licensed under the MIT licence. This project includes a copy of multigrids, and code based on atm.tools.initiation_areas.py from the atm project which is licensed under the MIT licence.

Utility help

Utility for creating seasonal precipitation products by summing monthly
raster files. 

Flags
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    --monthly-data-directory: path
        input monthly raster data
    --out-directory: path
        Directory to save results at
    --season: string
        Season to sum precipitation for. Seasons are defined below 
        with inclusive month ranges
        'winter' for Oct(year N) - Mar(year N+1)
        'early winter' for Oct - Nov
        summer for Apr - Sept
    --sort-method: string, optional
        'default' to use Python's `sorted` method or,
        'snap' use a function to sort SNAP raster files which are
        named '*_MM_YYYY.*'

    
Example
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    python spc/utility.py --monthly-data-directory=./ --out-directory=./ 
        --season=winter --sort-method=snap