Globsim

About

Globsim helps you to download reanalysis data from ERA-Interim, MERRA2, and JRA-55 for a target area and to interpolate it to point time series for individual locations. This is intended to replace or supplement meteorological observations in remote areas. This page provides high-level information that is required as an entry point to using Globsim. All python code is documented with comment and (doxypyppy?). The sub-directory examples/ contains examples of relevant control files.

Directories and files

Globsim weeks with three differing directories. The source directory is what is contained in this GitHub repository (default: ~/src/globsim). The credentials directory is where your login credential files for the differing reanalyses are found (default: ~/.). The target directory is the location to which data is downloaded and where processed data is found.

Credentials directory

Contains credentials files with login information, see directory examples/. .ecmwfapirc (ERA-Interim) .merrarc (MERRA2) .jra55rc (JRA-55)

Target directory

project_a/ project_a/jra-55/ project_a/eraint/ project_a/merra2/ project_a/results