dwd-opendata-get-grib

Introduction

Functions to get grib data from the DWD OpenData Server and convert it to a format that is more readable and easier to access and perform Data Science on it.

Requirements

• ecCodes (Installation instructions here)

Installation

As a package with pip:

pip install dwd-opendata-get-grib

or with conda/mamba to get the eccodes library as a direct binary

conda install -c conda-forge dwd-opendata-get-grib

mamba install -c conda-forge dwd-opendata-get-grib

As a standalone:

Download .zip archive from GitHub Releases. Built with pyinstaller.

Table of full height levels

level idx.	height [m]	level idx.	height [m]	level idx.	height [m]	level idx.	height [m]
1	20700.926	18	8446.611	35	3639.535	52	924.048
2	18707.630	19	8073.640	36	3434.414	53	855.630
3	17459.836	20	7715.350	37	3235.976	54	752.427
4	16432.216	21	7370.106	38	3044.029	55	654.479
5	15538.089	22	7039.106	39	2858.399	56	561.856
6	14738.074	23	6719.557	40	2678.926	57	474.652
7	14009.789	24	6411.462	41	2505.461	58	393.002
8	13338.901	25	6114.219	42	2337.870	59	317.092
9	12715.508	26	5827.280	43	2176.032	60	247.172
10	12132.398	27	5550.148	44	2019.836	61	183.592
11	11584.105	28	5282.374	45	1869.185	62	126.857
12	11066.360	29	5023.548	46	1723.991	63	77.745
13	10575.747	30	4773.294	47	1584.179	64	37.606
14	10109.477	31	4531.269	48	1449.686	65	10.000
15	9665.235	32	4297.157	49	1320.458
16	9241.077	33	4070.672	50	1196.457
17	8835.344	34	3851.546	51	1077.658

Table of full pressure levels

pressure level [hPa]
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