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openclimatefix / nwp

Tools for downloading and processing numerical weather predictions
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Add support for GFS or ICON13 or IFS #14

Closed jacobbieker closed 1 year ago

jacobbieker commented 1 year ago

We want to have NWP data that extends beyond the UK to Europe at least, and ideally globally. This does require more work to convert various GRIB files and such to the same Zarr format as we use for the MetOffice NWP.

Pros/Cons of the various NWP options: GFS: Completely free, live is accessible from AWS/GCP buckets, historical easy to access from NOAA, but not as skillful as other options, 3 hour timesteps, 27km resolution ICON13: DWD Global weather model, 1 hour timestep, 13km resolution, mostly free to use, not as easy to access live or historical as far as I can tell IFS: Generally best forecasting model, 1 hour timestep, 14km resolution IFS, free for research use, very expensive for production use.

jacobbieker commented 1 year ago

This might be useful? Not sure if MeteoBlue API is free or not to get the data, but has a few models here: https://docs.meteoblue.com/en/meteo/data-sources/datasets

jacobbieker commented 1 year ago

DWD has the ICON model data and other data available here: https://opendata.dwd.de/weather/ but only for the last forecast, haven't had much success finding historical data

jacobbieker commented 1 year ago

And download scripts are here for the data: https://github.com/guidocioni/icon_forecasts