Installation

Thehe library can be installed using pip, or the github link or the setup.py file.

using pip

The most easy way to install aqua-fetch is using pip

pip install aqua-fetch

However, if you are interested in installing all dependencies of AquaFetch, you can choose to install all of them as well.

pip install aqua-fetch[all]

This will install xarray, netCDF4, fiona and easy_mpl libraries. The xarray library is used to save the data in netCDF4 format for faster I/O operations. fiona is used to process shapefiles while easy_mpl is used for plotting purpose.

We can also specify the AquaFetch version that we want to install as below

pip install aqua-fetch==1.0.0

To updated the installation run

pip install --upgrade aqua-fetch

using github link

You can also use github link to install AquaFetch.

python -m pip install git+https://github.com/hyex-research/AquaFetch.git

The latest code however (possibly with less bugs and more features) can be installed from dev branch instead

python -m pip install git+https://github.com/hyex-research/AquaFetch.git@dev

To install the latest branch (dev) with all requirements use all keyword

python -m pip install "aqua-fetch[all] @ git+https://github.com/hyex-research/AquaFetch.git@dev"

This will install xarray, netCDF4, easy_mpl and fiona libraries.

You can also install AquaFetch from a specific commit using the commit code (SHA) as below

pip install git+https://github.com/hyex-research/AquaFetch.git@e2c0a9825bb987e16c3c29d5e124203829ef3802

using setup.py file

This involves cloning the respotory, changing directory to the cloned folder and then running the setup.py file.

git clone https://github.com/hyex-research/AquaFetch.git
cd AquaFetch
python setup.py install