[CLIMATE-632] Adding a loader to handle multiple MERRA reanalysis HDF files stored on a local disk

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.1.0
• Component/s: data sources
• Assignee: Huikyo Lee
• Reporter: Huikyo Lee
• Due: 28/Apr/15
• Created: 28/Apr/15 17:00
• Updated: 19/Nov/15 21:20
• Resolved: 19/Nov/15 21:20

Description

Original MERRA reanalysis data are in HDF-EOS format. Current file loaders cannot read hourly MERRA data files at all without file conversion and pre-processing. By adding a simple loader for MERRA data (load_merra_3d_files), OCW users can easily read and create an OCW dataset object.