Tools supporting the NPS IMD Environmental Setting protocol (https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2244060)
The Environmental setting Toolkit is the next iteration of and was forked from the IM_Climate toolkit created in 2016-2017. That toolkit can be found here: (https://github.com/IMDProjects/IM_Climate)
Version 2.0 - March 2018
Bug fixes
Parameter date range availability
Period of record summary
Station data (day count parameters) - standard and custom AOAs
Station data (departures from normals) - standard and custom AOAs
Version 2.1 - April 2018
AOA polygon-based metrics (departures from normals gridded metrics using 800m PRISM data)
Enhancements/bug fixes for station-based metrics
Version 2.1.1 - June 2018
Performance enhancements for gridded metric generation
Version 2.1.2 - September 2018
Bug fixes
Version 2.1.3 - May 2019
Enhancements for FY2019 station metric generation
Version 2.1.4 - August 2020
Switch to DBI
Version 2.1.5 - August 2020
Bug fix
Version 2.1.6 - Late 2020
Enhancements for FY2019 gridded metric generation
Version 2.2 - Unknown
Mirror capabilities for Python version of Toolkit
Index-based metrics
Upload polygon
Version 2.3 - Mid 2021
Generic capabilities: add DayMet/NASA NEX as sources
Release Notes Switched database access to DBI.
Release Notes Enhancements to run count and departure metrics. Addition of daily flag data requests. Updates to station response. Implemented testing framework.
This software is in the public domain because it contains materials from the U.S. National Park Service, an agency of the United States Department of Interior.
Although this software package has been used by the U.S. National Park Service (NPS), no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by the NPS or the U.S. Government as to the accuracy and functioning of the package and related program material nor shall the fact of distribution constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the NPS in connection therewith.
This software is provided "AS IS."