pysteps.io.exporters.initialize_forecast_exporter_kineros¶
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pysteps.io.exporters.
initialize_forecast_exporter_kineros
(filename, startdate, timestep, n_timesteps, shape, n_ens_members, metadata, incremental=None)¶ Initialize a KINEROS2 Rainfall .pre file as specified in https://www.tucson.ars.ag.gov/kineros/.
Grid points are treated as individual rain gauges and a separate file is produced for each ensemble member.
Parameters: - filename : str
Name of the output file.
- startdate : datetime.datetime
Start date of the forecast as datetime object.
- timestep : int
Time step of the forecast (minutes).
- n_timesteps : int
Number of time steps in the forecast this argument is ignored if incremental is set to ‘timestep’.
- shape : tuple of int
Two-element tuple defining the shape (height,width) of the forecast grids.
- n_ens_members : int
Number of ensemble members in the forecast. This argument is ignored if incremental is set to ‘member’.
- metadata: dict
Metadata dictionary containing the projection,x1,x2,y1,y2 and unit attributes described in the documentation of
pysteps.io.importers
.- incremental : {None}, optional
Currently not implemented for this method.
Returns: - exporter : dict
The return value is a dictionary containing an exporter object. This c an be used with
pysteps.io.exporters.export_forecast_dataset()
to write datasets into the given file format.