NWP

Tools for downloading and processing numerical weather predictions

At the moment, this code is focused on downloading historical UKV NWPs produced by the UK Met Office, and distributed by CEDA.

Detailed docs of the Met Office data is available here.

Installation

conda

From within the cloned nwp directory:

conda env create -f environment.yml
conda activate nwp
pip install -e .

Downloading UKV numerical weather predictions from CEDA

Request access to the UK Met Office data on CEDA.

Once you have a username and password, download using scripts/download_UK_Met_Office_NWPs_from_CEDA.sh. Please see the comments at the top of the script for instructions.

Convert grib files to Zarr

Then convert the grib files to Zarr using scripts/convert_NWP_grib_to_zarr.py. Run that script with --help to see how to operate it. See the comments at the top of the script to learn how the script works.