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[[ | [[Image:EgmondAanZee.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Data nodes near the Egmond Aan Zee Offhore ]]The simplest way to use the EMDAPI with python is to install the client software in a virtual environment. If you are using CONDA or [https://docs.conda.io/en/latest/miniconda.html MINICONDA], we recommend that you create a new virtual environment and use a recent 3.x version of python. When the virtual environment is created, then activate the environment. | ||
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Revision as of 15:14, 25 August 2020
Origin and Purpose
EMDAPI is a software library by EMD aimed at delivering a unified interface to the widest range of climate data. EMDAPI helps consultants, analysts and scientists in achieving their goals in an efficient way:
- 40+ climate datasets: EMDAPI provides access more than 40 of the best climate datasets and allows access to more than 1Pb of data.
- Unified interface: The unified interface which allows for integration to internal processes and tools - and also very efficient uncertainty analysis with gigabytes of data easily accessed.
- Trusted datasets: The EMDAPI builds upon the trusted data-bases and data-sources that have been used through the online-data services in windPRO for more than a decade.
- Built on open standards: he EMDAPI is a REST based service that implements the OpenAPI standard].
- Use any tool: Access to the climate databases is available from your preferred development platform - C#, R, python, html, java, php, scala and swift. Just use the OpenAPI tools to generate the client software for your preferred platform.
API URL
The API is currently (August 2020) in beta-release. To see more documentation and access the services, please visit the API through the following URL:
Python - Installation and Test
The simplest way to use the EMDAPI with python is to install the client software in a virtual environment. If you are using CONDA or MINICONDA, we recommend that you create a new virtual environment and use a recent 3.x version of python. When the virtual environment is created, then activate the environment.
conda create -n emdapi python=3.8 conda activate emdapi
Download the zipped-file holding the OpenAPI python client. Unpack the file and install it within your virtual environment:
python setup.py install
Install the packages needed in order to do data-science and use the examples provided in the jupyter notebooks:
conda install jupyter pandas json ....
Give the installation a test-drive using the jupyter notebooks provided
jupyter notebook