datapackage.json

{
    "hide": "yes",
    "last_changes": "added download of solar, temperature, air density and pressure data",
    "licenses": [
        {
            "type": "MIT license",
            "url": "http://www.opensource.org/licenses/MIT"
        }
    ],
    "deslong_description": "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. It is recommended to study the the \"Step-by-step user guide\" (developer use  case) on this platform to learn how to run the script.",
    "version": "2017-06-22",
    "title": "Weather data",
    "views": true,
    "geographical-scope": "Worldwide",
    "documentation": "https://github.com/Open-Power-System-Data/weather_data/blob/2017-06-22/main.ipynb",
    "contributors": [
        {
            "email": "martin.jahn@uni-flensburg.de",
            "web": null,
            "name": "Martin Jahn"
        },
        {
            "email": "jan.urbansky@uni-flensburg.de",
            "name": "Jan Urbansky"
        }
    ],
    "name": "opsd-weather-data",
    "description": "Script for the download of MERRA-2 weather data",
    "sources": [
        {
            "web": "https://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/reanalysis/MERRA-2/",
            "name": "MERRA-2",
            "source": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Goddard Space Flight Center"
        }
    ],
    "keywords": [
        "Open Power System Data",
        "MERRA-2",
        "wind",
        "solar",
        "temperature",
        "density",
        "pressure"
    ]
}