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A format-agnostic Python interface for geospatial data
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Implement earthkit xarray engine #400

Open sandorkertesz opened 3 months ago

sandorkertesz commented 3 months ago

The task is to continue the developments in branch feature/earthkit-engine to develop a new xarray engine to replace cfgrib for grib -> xarray -> grib conversions.

sandorkertesz commented 3 months ago

Still work in progress. Notebooks showing how the new engine works can be found at:

https://earthkit-data.readthedocs.io/en/feature-earthkit-engine/examples/index.html#xarray-engine

and

https://github.com/ecmwf/earthkit-data/tree/feature/earthkit-engine/docs/experimental

The documentation of the options is available here (see the open_dataset method):

https://earthkit-data.readthedocs.io/en/feature-earthkit-engine/_api/data/utils/xarray/engine/index.html#data.utils.xarray.engine.EarthkitBackendEntrypoint