flopy.export.metadata module

class acdd(sciencebase_id, model)

Bases: object

Translate ScienceBase global metadata attributes to CF and ACDD global attributes.

Parameters:

• sciencebase_id (str) – Unique identifier for ScienceBase record (e.g. 582da7efe4b04d580bd37be8)
• model (flopy model object) – Model object

References

https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/ http://cfconventions.org/cf-conventions/v1.6.0/cf-conventions.html#description-of-file-contents http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Attribute_Convention_for_Data_Discovery

bounds

creator

creator_url

geospatial_bounds

Describes the data’s 2D or 3D geospatial extent in OGC’s Well-Known Text (WKT) Geometry format

geospatial_bounds_vertical_crs

The vertical coordinate reference system (CRS) for the Z axis of the point coordinates in the geospatial_bounds attribute.

get_sciencebase_metadata(id)

Gets metadata json text for given ID from sciencebase.gov; loads into python dictionary. Fetches the reference text using the url: https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/<ID>?format=json

Parameters:ID (str) – ScienceBase ID string; e.g. 582da7efe4b04d580bd37be8 for Dane County Model Returns:metadata – Dictionary of metadata Return type:dict

get_sciencebase_xml_metadata()

Gets xml from sciencebase.gov, using XML url obtained from json using get_sciencebase_metadata().

Parameters:ID (str) – ScienceBase ID string; e.g. 582da7efe4b04d580bd37be8 for Dane County Model Returns:metadata – Dictionary of metadata Return type:dict

references

time_coverage

vertical_datum

Try to parse the vertical datum from the xml info

xmlfile

xmlroot

ElementTree root element object for xml metadata