FindFiles

This packages is a wrapper class around the solr_search module of the evaluation system.

author:Sebastian Illing contact:sebastian.illing@met.fu-berlin.de

findFiles Module

class metrics.findFiles.FindFiles(tmpDir='/', observation='', level=None, output='/')

Wrapper class to use solr_search with “python friendly” output –> lists or dicts

getFiles(year, fileType, model, variable, time_frequency='mon', product='*', ensemblemembers='*', institute='*', exp_prefix='d*', maxleadtime=10, minLeadtime=1)

Method to get model files with solr_search.

Parameters:

• year – decadal starting year
• fileType – baseline1, cmip5, historical or...
• model – model name i.e. MPI-ESM-LR
• variable – CMOR variable
• time_frequency – monthly, yearly, daily and so on

Returns:

list with all ensemblemembers members found

getReanalysis(year, fileType, experiment, variable, filePath='', time_frequency='mon', maxLeadtime=10, observation_ensemble='*', minLeadtime=1)

Wrapper method to find reanalysis file with solr_search.

Parameters:

• year – startyear
• fileType – reanalysis or observation
• experiment – i.e. NCEP, HadCrut or MERRA
• variable – CMOR Variable
• time_frequency – monthly, yearly, daily and so on

Returns:

“decadal” file with observations

getObsFiles(variable, year, maxLeadtime=10, minLeadtime=1)

Get the observation files from an specified folder

Parameters:

• variable –
• year – start year of decadal

:return tmp file with maxLeadtime years of observation