DATAPACKAGE: WEATHER DATA
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by Open Power System Data: http://www.open-power-system-data.org/

Package Version: 2016-10-21

Script for the download of MERRA-2 weather data

Weather data differ significantly from the other data types used resp. 
provided by OPSD in that the sheer size of the data packages greatly 
exceeds OPSD's capacity to host them in a similar way as feed-in 
timeseries, power plant data etc. While the other data packages also offer
a complete one-klick download of the bundled data packages with  all
relevant data this is impossible for weather datasets like MERRA-2 due  to
their size (variety of variables, very long timespan, huge geographical
coverage etc.). It would make no sense to mirror the data from the NASA 
servers. Instead we choose to provide a documented methodological script 
(as a kind of tutorial). The method describes one way to automatically 
obtain the desired weather data from the MERRA-2 database and simplifies 
resp. unifies alternative manual data obtaining methods in a single 
script.

The data package covers the geographical region of Worldwide.

We follow the Data Package standard by the Frictionless Data project, a
part of the Open Knowledge Foundation: http://frictionlessdata.io/


Documentation and script
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This README only contains the most basic information about the data package.
For the full documentation, please see the notebook script that was used to
generate the data package. You can find it at:

https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/Open-Power-System-Data/weather_data/blob/2016-10-21/main.ipynb

Or on GitHub at:

https://github.com/Open-Power-System-Data/weather_data/blob/2016-10-21/main.ipynb

License and attribution
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Data license: 


Script license:
    [MIT License](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

Attribution:
    Attribution in Chicago author-date style should be given as follows:
    "Open Power System Data. 2016. Data Package Weather data. Version
    2016-10-21.
    https://data.open-power-system-data.org/weather_data/2016-10-21/.
    (Primary data from various sources, for a complete list see URL)."


Version history
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* 2016-10-21 Published on the main repository


Resources
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* [Package description page](http://data.open-power-system-data.org/weather_data/2016-10-21/)
* [ZIP Package](http://data.open-power-system-data.org/weather_data/opsd-weather_data-2016-10-21.zip)
* [Script and documentation](https://github.com/Open-Power-System-Data/weather_data/blob/2016-10-21/main.ipynb)


Sources
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* [MERRA-2](https://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/reanalysis/MERRA-2/)


Feedback
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Thank you for using data provided by Open Power System Data. If you have
any question or feedback, please do not hesitate to contact us.

For this data package, contact:
Jan Urbansky <jan.urbansky@uni-flensburg.de>

For general issues, find our team contact details on our website:
http://www.open-power-system-data.org