pysteps.io.importers.import_saf_crri¶

pysteps.io.importers.import_saf_crri(filename, extent=None, **kwargs)¶

Import a NetCDF radar rainfall product from the Convective Rainfall Rate Intensity (CRRI) product from the Satellite Application Facilities (SAF).

Product description available on http://www.nwcsaf.org/crr_description (last visited Jan 26, 2020).

Parameters

filename: str: Name of the file to import.
extent: scalars (left, right, bottom, top), optional: The spatial extent specified in data coordinates. If None, the full extent is imported.

Returns

out: tuple: A three-element tuple containing the rainfall field in mm/h, the quality field and the metadata imported from the CRRI SAF netcdf file. The quality field includes values [1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32] meaning “nodata”, “internal_consistency”, “temporal_consistency”, “good”, “questionable”, “bad”, and “interpolated”, respectively.

Other Parameters

dtype: str: Data-type to which the array is cast. Valid values: “float32”, “float64”, “single”, and “double”.
fillna: float or np.nan: Value used to represent the missing data (“No Coverage”). By default, np.nan is used.