drydowns

A python package for identifying and characterizing drydown events from soil moisture data as detailed in:

Morgan, B.E., Araki, R., Trugman, A.T., Caylor, K.K. (in review). Ecological and hydroclimatic determinants of vegetation water-use strategies. Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Getting started

Example usage of this package is detailed in the ismn-drydowns repository.

To edit the package:

1. Clone the repository

$ git clone git@github.com:ecohydro/drydowns.git

2. Create a virtual environment

$ cd drydowns
$ conda env create -f environment_linux.yml
$ conda activate ismn

Note that if using Windows, the environment_win.yml file should be used instead.

To install the package in editable format (for development alongside analysis):

pip install -e git+ssh://github.com/ecohydro/drydowns.git@v0.0.1

Authors

• Ryoko Araki, San Diego State University
• Bryn Morgan, UC Santa Barbara

Contact

Bryn Morgan, brynmorgan@ucsb.edu