[CLIMATE-633] Adding a loader to handle WRF output stored on a local disk

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.0
• Component/s: data sources
• Assignee: Huikyo Lee
• Reporter: Huikyo Lee
• Due: 28/Apr/15
• Created: 28/Apr/15 19:55
• Updated: 13/May/15 16:24
• Resolved: 11/May/15 15:23

Description

In order to handle multiple output files of 2-dimensional fields from Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, a new loader called load_WRF_2d_files is proposed. This WRF loader includes a time parser only applicable to WRF output files. Original WRF output files use curvilinear grid points whose latitudes and longitudes are two dimensional arrays and their values do not increase or decrease monotonically. So there are some updates in the OCW dataset validation process. The loader has been tested using hourly WRF output on NCCS's linux-based supercomputers.