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Set up the Python environment
Visualize EFAS products
Retrieve data
These exercises require EFAS model output parameters and auxiliary data. You can retrieve them using the CDS API, as described in the code blocks below:
Model outputs
Auxiliary data
From the CDS Static files link, download the following NetCDFs:
thmin1.nc, thmin2.nc, thmin3.nc, thmax1.nc, thmax2.nc, thmax3.nc
When the marsurl will be in production one can download the auxiliary data simply requesting them through a CDS API request:
Note: the soil depth is now part of the auxiliary data. Before it was downloaded as you would download a model output.
And then unzip the auxiliary.zip
$ unzip auxiliary.zip Archive: auxiliary.zip extracting: thmax_1.nc extracting: thmin_1.nc extracting: thmax_2.nc extracting: thmin_2.nc extracting: thmax_3.nc extracting: thmin_3.nc
Plot map discharge
Plot Discharge Timeseries
Plot Soil Wetness Index Map
Plot Snow depth water equivalent map
Visualize GLOFAS products
Also for this exercise we are going to retrieve data from the CDS API, as described in the code blocks below:
Retrieve data
The script shows how to retrieve the control reforecasts product from year 1999 to 2018, relative to the date 2019-01-03, for two station coordinates, one on the river network of the Thames and the other one on the Po river.
This second script shows how to retrieve a point time series reforecast on the river Thames for a single forecast reference time, specifically the 11th of July 2007.
Plot ~20 years of reforecast time series from point coordinates
import xarray as xr
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
YEARS = range(1999,2019)
# read dataset
ds = xr.open_dataset("glofas_reforecast_Po_january_03.grib",engine="cfgrib")
da = ds.isel(latitude=0,longitude=0).dis24
# plotting parameters
n = len(YEARS)
colors = plt.cm.jet(np.linspace(0,1,n))
ls = ["-","--",":"]
# plot
fig,ax = plt.subplots(1,1,figsize=(16,8))
steps = list(range(24,dsa.shape[1]*24+24,24))
for i,year in enumerate(YEARS):
y = da.sel(time=f"{year}-01-03").values
ax.plot(steps,y,label=f"{year}-01-03",color=colors[i],ls=ls[i%3])
plt.legend(bbox_to_anchor=(0.9,-0.1),ncol=7)
ax.set_xlim([0,steps[-1]])
ax.set_xlabel("leadtime hours")
ax.set_ylabel("m**3 s**-1")
plt.title(f"Po river discharge at {float(ds.latitude.values),round(float(ds.longitude.values),2)}")
Plot reforecast ensemble members time series for an historic flood event
In July 2007, a series of flooding events hit the UK, in particular in some areas of the upper Thames catchment. Up to 120 mm of rain fell between 19th and 20th of July.
import xarray as xr
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.dates as mdates
from datetime import datetime,timedelta
forecast_reference_time = datetime(2017,7,11)
# read perturbed ensembles (dataType:pf)
ds = xr.open_dataset("glofas_reforecast_Thames_july_11.grib",engine="cfgrib",backend_kwargs={'filter_by_keys':{'dataType': 'pf'}})
da = ds.isel(latitude=0,longitude=0).dis24
# read control (dataType:cf)
cds = xr.open_dataset("glofas_reforecast_Thames_july_11.grib",engine="cfgrib",backend_kwargs={'filter_by_keys':{'dataType': 'cf'}})
cda = cds.isel(latitude=0,longitude=0).dis24
start = forecast_reference_time
end = start + timedelta(45)
time = pd.date_range(start,end)
# plotting parameters
ls = ["-","--",":"]
locator = mdates.AutoDateLocator(minticks=2, maxticks=46)
formatter = mdates.DateFormatter("%b-%d")
# plot
fig,ax = plt.subplots(1,1,figsize=(16,8))
ax.plot(time,cda.values,label=f"control",color="red")
for i,number in enumerate(range(0,10)):
y = da.isel(number=number).values
ax.plot(time,y,label=f"ensemble {number}",color=colors[i],ls=ls[i%3])
plt.legend(bbox_to_anchor=(1,1),ncol=2)
ax.axvspan(datetime(2017,7,19), datetime(2017,7,21), alpha=0.3, color='blue') # highlight event
ax.set_xlabel("date")
ax.set_ylabel("m**3 s**-1")
ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(locator)
ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(formatter)
ax.set_xlim([time[0],time[-1]])
plt.annotate("peak\nrainfall\nevent",(datetime(2017,7,19,3),85),rotation=0)
plt.xticks(rotation=70)
plt.title(f"Forecast reference time: 11-07-2007 - Thames river discharge at {float(ds.latitude.values),round(float(ds.longitude.values-360),2)}")
