Climate open data

Everyone can have access to climate data, however many people were not able to access the data due to various reasons: failing register on the website, formulating and sending request to get the right data they need. Here we write precise

We use several sources for open data on temperature:

1. reanalysis data from GES DISC MERRA from https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
2. observational data: example data available for downloading after login http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-hadobs/data/insitu/MOHC/HadOBS/HadUK-Grid/v1.0.0.0/60km/ and downloadable data link url = 'http://dap.ceda.ac.uk/thredds/fileServer/badc/ukmo-hadobs/data/insitu/MOHC/HadOBS/HadUK-Grid/v1.0.0.0/60km/tas/mon/v20181126/tas_hadukgrid_uk_60km_mon_188401-188412.nc' and https://services.ceda.ac.uk/cedasite/myceda/user/

How to download the data

1. Create account and log in to https://www.ceda.ac.uk/
2. Depending on the variables and time-scale of the data you want to download setup request, for example, 2010 taxmax (temperature): http://dap.ceda.ac.uk/thredds/fileServer/badc/ukmo-hadobs/data/insitu/MOHC/HadOBS/HadUK-Grid/v1.0.0.0/60km/tas/mon/v20181126/tas_hadukgrid_uk_60km_mon_201001-201012.nc

Climate variables

Examples of climate variables: surface_air_temperature

surface_layer_height

surface_pressure

surface_specific_humidity

surface_wind_speed

Code for parcing data

For parcing data one needs to install ´xarray´ python package. The code for parcing the data is uploaded to the folder https://github.com/Liyubov/climate_open_data/blob/master/parse_hadukgrid.py

You can also open and look into the climate data using command line via: ncdump -t tasmax_hadukgrid_uk_60km_mon_188601-188612.nc