TROPOMI XCH4 retrievals from the University of Bremen (TROPOMI / CH4-WFMD)¶
Description¶
This plugin reads TROPOMI XCH4 retrievals as provided by the University of Bremen. Data can be downloaded here: `https://www.iup.uni-bremen.de/carbon_ghg/products/tropomi_wfmd/`__.
The data is described in Schneising et al. (2019)
Yaml arguments¶
The following arguments are used to configure the plugin. pyCIF will return an exception at the initialization if mandatory arguments are not specified, or if any argument does not fit accepted values or type:
Optional arguments¶
crop_domain: (optional)
Domain where to keep data. Data outside are discarded
- accepted structure:
xmin: (mandatory)
West boundary
accepted type: float
xmax: (mandatory)
East boundary
accepted type: float
ymin: (mandatory)
South boundary
accepted type: float
ymax: (mandatory)
North boundary
accepted type: float
nlayers: (optional): 20
Number of layers expected in the averaging kernels
accepted type: float
obs_duration: (optional): 0.016666666666666666
Duration of each observation
accepted type: float
stationID: (optional): TROPOMI
Name to put in the ‘station’ column of the output parsed datastore
accepted type: str
networkID: (optional): WFMD
Name to put in the ‘network’ column of the output parsed datastore
accepted type: str
parameter: (optional): CH4
Name of the species to put in the ‘parameter’ column of the output parsed datastore
accepted type: str
Yaml template¶
Please find below a template for a Yaml configuration:
1obsparser:
2 plugin:
3 name: TROPOMI
4 version: CH4-WFMD
5 type: obsparser
6
7 # Optional arguments
8 crop_domain:
9 xmin: XXXXX # float
10 xmax: XXXXX # float
11 ymin: XXXXX # float
12 ymax: XXXXX # float
13 nlayers: XXXXX # float
14 obs_duration: XXXXX # float
15 stationID: XXXXX # str
16 networkID: XXXXX # str
17 parameter: XXXXX # str
