ConceptsΒΆ Inputs Data sources from_object Data objects Data object returned by from_source Data object returned by from_object Encoders Encoders GRIB encoder Targets Details Examples Overview Streams Iterating over a stream Reading all the data into memory Further examples Configuration Accessing configuration options Changing configuration Temporary configuration Resetting configuration Environment variables List of configuration parameters List of environment variables Caching Purpose Cache policies Cache methods Cache limits Cache config parameters Xarray engine Xarray engine: overview Dimensions Xarray engine: profiles Profiles: earthkit Profiles: mars Profiles: grib Profiles: None Plugins overview The plugin mechanism Sources plugins Miscellaneous Using parts for file, s3 and url sources Using split_on in retrieval requests Field Field Metadata key reference Parameter component and metadata keys Time component and metadata keys Vertical component and metadata keys Ensemble component and metadata keys Geography component and metadata keys Processing (proc) component and metadata keys Labels component FieldList Indexing and slicing Iteration Selection Ordering Metadata access Extracting data Converting to Xarray Concatenation FieldList types How-tos