pysteps.io.importers.import_saf_crri

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

Import a NetCDF radar rainfall product from the Convective Rainfall Rate Intensity (CRRI) product from the Satellite Application Facilities (SAF).

Product description available on http://www.nwcsaf.org/crr_description (last visited Jan 26, 2020).

Parameters:

filename : str

Name of the file to import.

Returns:

out : tuple

A three-element tuple containing the rainfall field in mm/h, the quality field and the metadata imported from the CRRI SAF netcdf file. The quality field includes values [1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32] meaning “nodata”, “internal_consistency”, “temporal_consistency”, “good”, “questionable”, “bad”, and “interpolated”, respectively.

Other Parameters:  

extent : scalars (left, right, bottom, top), optional

The spatial extent specified in data coordinates. If None, the full extent is imported.