Zephyr: Multi-variable requests and new documentation¶
Zephyr, C2SM's climate data extraction tool, now supports requesting multiple variables (or other fields) in a single request, and comes with a brand-new documentation site.
Multi-variable requests¶
Any field in a Zephyr request — variable, ensemble_member, and others — can now hold a list of values instead of a single one, e.g. "variable": ["tas", "pr"]. Zephyr builds the Cartesian product across all list-valued fields and processes every matching file, so you no longer need to submit one request per variable.
New documentation¶
Zephyr's documentation has moved out of the repository's README into a full documentation site, covering installation, running extractions locally on IAC machines, using the web interface, the request JSON format, supported datasets, architecture, and how the four repositories in the Zephyr ecosystem fit together.