earth2studio.data.WB2ERA5_121x240

class earth2studio.data.WB2ERA5_121x240(cache=True, verbose=True)

ERA5 reanalysis data with several derived variables down sampled to a 1.5 degree lat-lon grid from 1959 to 2023 (incl) to 6 hour intervals on 13 pressure levels. Provided by the WeatherBench2 data repository.

Parameters:

• cache (bool, optional) – Cache data source on local memory, by default True

• verbose (bool, optional) – Print download progress, by default True

Warning

This is a remote data source and can potentially download a large amount of data to your local machine for large requests.

Note

Additional information on the data repository can be referenced here:

• https://weatherbench2.readthedocs.io/en/latest/data-guide.html#era5

• https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.15560

__call__(time, variable)

Function to get data.

Parameters:

• time (datetime | list[datetime] | TimeArray) – Timestamps to return data for (UTC).

• variable (str | list[str] | VariableArray) – String, list of strings or array of strings that refer to variables to return. Must be in the WB2Lexicon lexicon.

Returns:

ERA5 weather data array from WB2Lexicon

Return type:

xr.DataArray