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GRIB Data Example¶
GRIB format is commonly used to disseminate atmospheric model data. With Xarray and the cfgrib engine, GRIB data can easily be analyzed and visualized.
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import xarray as xr
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
To read GRIB data, you can use xarray.load_dataset
. The only extra code you need is to specify the engine as cfgrib
.
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ds = xr.tutorial.load_dataset('era5-2mt-2019-03-uk.grib', engine='cfgrib')
Let’s create a simple plot of 2-m air temperature in degrees Celsius:
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ds = ds - 273.15
ds.t2m[0].plot(cmap=plt.cm.coolwarm)
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<matplotlib.collections.QuadMesh at 0x7fef59e462e0>
With CartoPy, we can create a more detailed plot, using built-in shapefiles to help provide geographic context:
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import cartopy.crs as ccrs
import cartopy
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(10,10))
ax = plt.axes(projection=ccrs.Robinson())
ax.coastlines(resolution='10m')
plot = ds.t2m[0].plot(cmap=plt.cm.coolwarm, transform=ccrs.PlateCarree(), cbar_kwargs={'shrink':0.6})
plt.title('ERA5 - 2m temperature British Isles March 2019')
[4]:
Text(0.5, 1.0, 'ERA5 - 2m temperature British Isles March 2019')
/home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/xray/conda/v0.17.0/lib/python3.8/site-packages/cartopy/io/__init__.py:260: DownloadWarning: Downloading: https://naciscdn.org/naturalearth/10m/physical/ne_10m_coastline.zip
warnings.warn('Downloading: {}'.format(url), DownloadWarning)
Finally, we can also pull out a time series for a given location easily:
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ds.t2m.sel(longitude=0,latitude=51.5).plot()
plt.title('ERA5 - London 2m temperature March 2019')
[5]:
Text(0.5, 1.0, 'ERA5 - London 2m temperature March 2019')