pysteps.io.importers.import_knmi_hdf5

pysteps.io.importers.import_knmi_hdf5(filename, **kwargs)

Import a precipitation field (and optionally the quality field) from a HDF5 file conforming to the KNMI Data Centre specification.

Parameters:

filename : str

Name of the file to import.

Returns:

out : tuple

A three-element tuple containing precipitation accumulation of the KNMI product, the associated quality field and metadata. The quality field is currently set to None.

Other Parameters:  

accutime : float

The accumulation time of the dataset in minutes.

pixelsize: float

The pixelsize of a raster cell in meters.