[CLIMATE-838] Update configuration files and example scripts to use new DatasetLoader

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.1.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.0
• Component/s: config, data sources
• Assignee: Alex Goodman
• Reporter: Alex Goodman
• Created: 29/Jul/16 22:01
• Updated: 09/Aug/16 17:47
• Resolved: 09/Aug/16 17:47

Description

The new DatasetLoader class found in dataset_loader.py was designed to do the following:

1) Unify the loader functions for each data source in one module.
2) Greatly simplify the process of parsing input from configuration files into the loaders.
3) Allow users to easily load datasets from many different data sources in a single evaluation run.

The unit tests I have written can test some of this functionality, but it is now time to put it into practice. This means updating the configuration files and the associated evaluation scripts (eg run_RCMES.py).

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #384