Climate Open Data
Climate Open Data collection.
Climate open data
Everyone can have access to climate data, however many people were not able to access the data due to various reasons: failing register on the website, formulating and sending request to get the right data they need. Here we write precise
We use several sources for open data on temperature:
- reanalysis data from GES DISC MERRA from https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
- observational data: example data available for downloading after login http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-hadobs/data/insitu/MOHC/HadOBS/HadUK-Grid/v1.0.0.0/60km/ and downloadable data link url = 'http://dap.ceda.ac.uk/thredds/fileServer/badc/ukmo-hadobs/data/insitu/MOHC/HadOBS/HadUK-Grid/v1.0.0.0/60km/tas/mon/v20181126/tas_hadukgrid_uk_60km_mon_188401-188412.nc' and https://services.ceda.ac.uk/cedasite/myceda/user/
How to download the data
- Create account and log in to https://www.ceda.ac.uk/
- Depending on the variables and time-scale of the data you want to download setup request, for example, 2010 taxmax (temperature): http://dap.ceda.ac.uk/thredds/fileServer/badc/ukmo-hadobs/data/insitu/MOHC/HadOBS/HadUK-Grid/v1.0.0.0/60km/tas/mon/v20181126/tas_hadukgrid_uk_60km_mon_201001-201012.nc
Climate variables
Examples of climate variables: surface_air_temperature
surface_layer_height
surface_pressure
surface_specific_humidity
surface_wind_speed
Code for parcing data
For parcing data one needs to install ´xarray´ python package. The code for parcing the data is uploaded to the folder https://github.com/Liyubov/climate_open_data/blob/master/parse_hadukgrid.py
You can also open and look into the climate data using command line via: ncdump -t tasmax_hadukgrid_uk_60km_mon_188601-188612.nc