Welcome to earthkit-data’s documentation
Warning
This project is in the BETA stage of development. Please be aware that interfaces and functionality may change as the project develops. If this software is to be used in operational systems you are strongly advised to use a released tag in your system configuration, and you should be willing to accept incoming changes and bug fixes that require adaptations on your part. ECMWF does use this software in operations and abides by the same caveats.
earthkit-data is a format-agnostic Python interface for geospatial data with a focus on meteorology and climate science. It is the data handling component of earthkit.
earthkit-data makes it simple to read, inspect and slice data from a wide range of geospatial input types (GRIB, NetCDF and more) and transform them into familiar scientific Python objects (including numpy arrays, pandas dataframes, xarray datasets).
data = earthkit.data.from_source("file", "my-data.nc")
arr = data.to_numpy()
df = data.to_pandas()
dataset = data.to_xarray()
earthkit-data provides additional convenient methods for quickly inspecting certain features of your input data, such as data dimensionality, axes, coordinate reference systems and bounding boxes.
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