ecmwf / ecmwf-opendata

A package to download ECMWF open data
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Incorrect unit for TP #5

Closed martimfj closed 2 years ago

martimfj commented 2 years ago

Hello!

I think that the provided unit for total precipitation (kg m-2) on the README is incorrect. Loading the data I got really low values as the maximum.

To corroborate that, I found a notebook example where TP is given as meters, not kg m-2 (mm).

The documentation could also provided the "validity" of the data like the S2S dataset:

total precipitation: accumulated from the beginning of the forecast surface_air_maximum_temperature: maximum determined over the last 6 hours

This kind of specification really helped me, as newcomer to the "meteorology world".

Thanks for the work, this is really helping me!

best regards!