In today's post, we're going to use xarray multicore capabilities to access a fairly large weather dataset using Python. To illustrate our purpose, we'll look at 15 years of solar radiations provided by the ECMWF. It takes a while to retrieve such a large dataset from the ECMWF, so I'll just give a direct link to a file with 15 years of data [...]

At WeatherForce, we do a lot of data analysis with Jupyter notebooks. Since setting up an environment for meteorological data can take a bit of time, we've decided to create a Docker image containing a suitable ready-to-use environment. The Jupyter project encourages this approach by providing a hierarchy of ready-made Docker images [...]