`earth2studio.data`.GFS#

class earth2studio.data.GFS(cache=True, verbose=True)[source]#

The global forecast service (GFS) initial state data source provided on an equirectangular grid. GFS is a weather forecast model developed by NOAA. This data source is provided on a 0.25 degree lat lon grid at 6-hour intervals spanning from Feb 26th 2021 to present date.

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

This data source only fetches the initial state of GFS and does not fetch an predicted time steps.

Note

Additional information on the data repository can be referenced here:

__call__(time, variable)[source]#

Retrieve GFS initial data to be used for initial conditions for the given time, variable information, and optional history.

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 GFS lexicon.

Returns: