Develop new database container for storage of ECMWF meteorological forecasts

[john-waczak]

The ECMWF provides excellent historical and forecast meteorological datasets which we want to include in our data store. We need develop a database to store the results as well as a a pipeline to fetch the datasets on a schedule.

[john-waczak]

@prabudewage can you please link your code for ingesting ECMWF meteorological data so the students can see it

[prabudewage]

@prabudewage can you please link your code for ingesting ECMWF meteorological data so the students can see it

Here is the GitHub link to my script for meteorological data downloading. https://github.com/prabudewage/pm_estimation

[john-waczak]

update: If these are served as NetCDF or GRIB files, we can just save the files and serve them via our WMS server.

[john-waczak]

Other relevant links:

• ECMWF Open Data Package
• ECMWF data api client
• GRIB to NetCDF Python Converter
• GRIB to NetCDF Julia Converter