Data Specification¶
Here we set out the specfication for the data we expect for the different storage classes.
ObsSurface¶
This handles all surface observations. Most data processing is done by ObsSurface.readfile which handles
all of the data processing itself.
If you need to use functions such as ObsSurface.store_data, these expect data in a specific format.
data = {
"site_name": { "data": xarray.Dataset,
"metadata": {"site": "site_code", ...},
"attributes": {...}
},
"site_name": { "data": xarray.Dataset,
"metadata": {"site": "site_code", ...},
"attributes": {...}
},
}
Each dataset must have a time variable, the species variable, species_variability and …