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instructions for open climate data extraction #313

Closed Liyubov closed 4 years ago

Liyubov commented 4 years ago

many people asked me how to download or extract climate data, here i tried to describe how to do it with data for UK for temperature from https://www.ceda.ac.uk/ website

issues with these data: climate data are claimed to be open, but in fact one needs to learn how to extract them. hopefully it will be helpful.

rufuspollock commented 4 years ago

@Liyubov this is awesome - thanks for sharing this. Can you check you are happy for this to be openly licensed (e.g. MIT or Public Domain).

@lauragift21 I think we can merge as is once we have checked re license and then you could do any grammar / formatting improvements that are needed 😄

Liyubov commented 4 years ago

Hi, @lauragift21 @rufuspollock Thank you for changes and suggestions.

About license on the data: Data provided by CEDA are in the CF-netCDF format distributed via an Open Government Licence (OGL). More information about it is here: https://help.ceda.ac.uk/article/235-climate-data-in-ceda-archives OGL permits anyone to copy, publish, distribute, transmit and adapt the licensed work, and to exploit it both commercially and non-commercially. In return, the re-user of the licensed work has to acknowledge the source of the work and (if possible) provide a link to the OGL.

Code for parsing the data in netCDF is here https://github.com/Liyubov/climate_open_data/blob/master/parse_hadukgrid.py Thank you!

rufuspollock commented 4 years ago

@lauragift21 can you go ahead and merge this 😄