Discharge¶

The time series discharge.csv has the following format:

Date;Q
1979-11-01 07:45:00;0.0150546
1979-11-01 08:00:00;0.03007293
1979-11-01 08:15:00;0.04494071
...
2015-11-01 05:45:00;0.00544004
2015-11-01 07:15:00;0.00543034
2015-11-01 07:30:00;0.00542872

It will be read as a pandas dataframe and transformed into a series.

filename = os.path.join(DIR_OF_FILE, 'discharge.csv')
df = pd.read_csv(filename, sep=';', decimal='.', index_col=0, parse_dates=[0])
sr = df['Q']

Output:

Date
1979-11-01 07:45:00  0.015055
1979-11-01 08:00:00  0.030073
1979-11-01 08:15:00  0.044941
...                       ...
2015-11-01 05:45:00  0.005440
2015-11-01 07:15:00  0.005430
2015-11-01 07:30:00  0.005429
Name: Q, Length: 1244551, dtype: float64