TOAR Gridding Tool

About

The TOARgridding projects data from the TOAD database (https://toar-data.fz-juelich.de/) onto a grid. The mean and standard deviation of all stations within a cell are computed.

The tool handels the request to the database over the REST API and the subsequent processing. The results are provided as xarray objects for subsequent processing by the user.

This project is in beta with the intended basic functionalities. The documentation is work in progress.

Requirements

Installation

Move to the folder you want to create download this project to.

Clone the project from its git repository

git clone https://gitlab.jsc.fz-juelich.de/esde/toar-public/toargridding.git 

The handling of required packages is done with poetry. For installing them go to the new created directory and run poetry

cd toargridding
poetry install

Example

There are at the moment three example provided as jupyter notebooks:

High level function

tests/procude_data.ipynb 

Provides an example on how to download data, apply gridding and save the results as netCDF files.

Retrieving data

get_sample_data.ipynb Downloads data from the TOAR database.

Retriving data and visualization

quality_controll.ipynb

Notebook for downloading and visualization of data. The data are downloaded and reused for subsequent executions of this notebook.

Supported Grids

The first supported grid is the Cartesian grid.

Supported Variables

At the moment only a limited number of variables from the TOAR database is supported.