CORDEX Data Processing

This script automatizes the handling of Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) temperature data from Copernicus CDS: downloading zips, extracting netcdf, unit conversion (from Kelvin to Celsius), reprojecting, and storing in ESRI-compatible multidimensional Cloud Raster Format (CRF) or as Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF (COG). The resulting CRF file is ready for animated visualisation of seasonal data and hosting in ArcGIS online.

Project Structure

• CORDEX_tas.py: Main file
• utils.py: Functions for data processing
• utils_arcpy.py: Functions for data processing involved arcpy module

References

1. CDS Toolbox documentation - Retrieving data
2. Choosing CRS / PROJ4 string for EURO-Cordex rotated pole projection?
3. CORDEX documentation
4. CORDEX regional climate model data on single levels in the Copernicus Climate Data Store
5. GDAL gdalwarp documentation
6. PROJ 9.3.1 documentation — General Oblique Transformation
7. Working with Multidimensional Scientific Data Using Python