Data#
ORCESTRA encourages free use and access to its data (see Data Policy). The primary starting point for exploring data is the ORCESTRA Data Browser. Data listed in the browser can be accessed through IPFS. Some specific datasets may not (yet) be available in the data browser, so if you still miss something, you might want to check alternate locations.
Data Browser#
The ORCESTRA Data Browser retrieves all information on-demand from the metadata in the datasets. In order for the data browser to correctly identify and parse relevant information, we have created the Attribute Convention for ORCESTRA.
about IPFS
The primary data distribution method for ORCESTRA is IPFS. In short, any data is identified by a content identifier (CID), which identifies (immutable) content in a verifiable way, but doesn’t specify the data location. IPFS adds a mechanism to locate and retrieve the data, based on only the CID. This means, the following code is sufficient to locate, retrieve, verify and open a dataset based on the CID:
xr.open_dataset("ipfs://bafybeiesyutuduzqwvu4ydn7ktihjljicywxeth6wtgd5zi4ynxzqngx4m", engine="zarr")
In this case, bafy...4m is the CID.
To learn more about setting up and using IPFS in the context of ORCESTRA, continue here.
Data Locations#
Name & Link |
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Main entry point for ORCESTRA data. |
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(deprecated) IPFS filesystem tree, established during the campaign. A loosely organized collection of files, is being replaced entirely by the Data Browser. |
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Datasets from MAESTRO sub-campaign. |
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Loosely organized collection of files from MAESTRO sub-campaign. Also includes several forecasts and satellite data. |
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Additional data for BOW-TIE. |
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Datasets from the Barbados Cloud Observatory (BCO) (TCO Data offers long timeseries, ORCESTRA data can be retrieved using subsetting). |
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Data from the CVAO Cloudnet site (CLARINET sub-campaign). |
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limited area ICON simulations |
requires Levante access |