NCEP

pansat.products.reanalysis.ncep

This module defines the NCEP reanalysis product class, which represents all supported NCEP reanalysis products.

class pansat.products.reanalysis.ncep.NCEPReanalysis(variable, grid)

The NCEP reanalysis class defines a generic interface for NCEP products.

variable

Variable to extract

Type

str

grid

pressure, surface, spectral, surface_gauss or tropopause

Type

str

name

Full name of the product.

Type

str

__init__(variable, grid)

Parameters

• variable (str) – Variable to extract

• grid (str) – pressure, surface, spectral, surface_gauss or tropopause

__str__()

The full product name.

_get_provider()

Find a provider that provides the product.

property default_destination

The default destination for NCEP product is NCEP/<product_name>>

download(start, end, destination=None)

Download data product for given time range.

Parameters

• start (int) – start year

• end (int) – end year

• destination (str or pathlib.Path) – The destination where to store the output data.

Returns

name list of all downloaded files for data product

Return type

downloaded(list)

filename_to_date(filename)

Extract timestamp from filename.

Parameters

filename (str) – Filename of a NCEP product.

Returns

datetime object representing the timestamp of the

filename.

matches(filename)

Determines whether a given filename matches the pattern used for the product.

Parameters

filename (str) – The filename

Returns

True if the filename matches the product, False otherwise.

classmethod open(filename)

Opens a given file of NCEP product class as xarray.

Parameters

filename (str) – name of the file to be opened

Returns

xarray dataset object for opened file

Return type

datasets(xarray.Dataset)

exception pansat.products.reanalysis.ncep.NoAvailableProviderError

Exception indicating that no suitable provider could be found for a product.

__weakref__

list of weak references to the object (if defined)