climpred.tutorial.load_dataset

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climpred.tutorial.load_dataset#

climpred.tutorial.load_dataset(name: str | None = None, cache: bool = True, cache_dir: str = '~/.climpred_data', github_url: str = 'https://github.com/pangeo-data/climpred-data', branch: str = 'master', extension: str | None = None, proxy_dict: Dict[str, str] | None = None, **kws) Dataset[source]#

Load example data or a mask from an online repository.

Parameters:
  • name – Name of the netcdf file containing the dataset, without the .nc extension. If None, this function prints out the available datasets to import.

  • cache – If True, cache data locally for use on later calls.

  • cache_dir – The directory in which to search for and cache the data.

  • github_url – Github repository where the data is stored.

  • branch – The git branch to download from.

  • extension – Subfolder within the repository where the data is stored.

  • proxy_dict – Dictionary with keys as either “http” or “https” and values as the proxy server. This is useful if you are on a work computer behind a firewall and need to use a proxy out to download data.

  • kws – Keywords passed to open_dataset().

Returns:

The desired xarray.Dataset

Examples

>>> from climpred.tutorial import load_dataset
>>> proxy_dict = {"http": "127.0.0.1"}
>>> ds = load_dataset("FOSI-SST", cache=False, proxy_dict=proxy_dict)