Zephyr¶
Zephyr is C2SM’s climate data extraction service for datasets stored at IAC (ETH Zurich). Users select a dataset, variables, a date range, and either a grid point or a bounding box in a web interface; the request is processed on an IAC machine and the extracted data is returned as NetCDF.
This site documents the whole ecosystem — not just the zephyr Python
package. Start with The Zephyr Ecosystem for the big picture, then jump to
whichever page matches what you’re trying to do:
Browse datasets and build a request in zephyr-frontend, without installing anything.
Install zephyr locally or on an IAC machine (e.g. co2) and run an
extraction from the command line.
The JSON schema a request file follows, field by field.
Which datasets and scenarios can be extracted, and how grid types are handled.