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To read GRIB files we encourage using Python 'xarray' and 'cfgrib' packages.
This guideline provides instructions about how to install required libraries (assuming you are working on a Linux OS) and document datasetdocuments the datasets' s specific configurations that must be set when reading GRIBs.
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Dataset's specific cfgrib configurations
The different GRIB data structure structures of the EFAS and GloFAS datasets may require some additional configuration to be set in the backend_kwargs argument of the xarray.open_dataset function.
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Read GRIB GloFAS historical datasets with multiple product types:
GloFAS historical has 2 two product types, consolidated and intermediate, that you could can download together in a GRIB file.
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There are 4 datasets that may have more that one product type in a GRIB file:
- FAS EFAS forecast: "control reforecast", "ensemble perturbed reforecast", "high resolution forecast"
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