ARL Weekly News – February 9, 2018

HQ Alice Crawford added capability to the get_era5.py, which automates the retrieval of the ERA5 grib files for conversion to ARL format. The program can now download ERA5 ensemble of data assimilations (ERA5 EDA) for use with HYSPLIT. https://github.com/amcz/hysplit_metdata. The ERA5 EDA has 62 km global resolution and 3 hourly analysis fields. There are 10…