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Model data when no station nearby #88

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sramirez opened this issue Mar 17, 2022 · 2 comments
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Model data when no station nearby #88

sramirez opened this issue Mar 17, 2022 · 2 comments
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Hi!

Congratulations for this amazing repository. I think meteostat could be greatly improved if model data is provided by default if no nearby station is found for a given data point. This happens to me trying to find data in southern Spain as stations are really scarce in some areas there. As this scenario may appear frequently in certain areas, this new feature could be really cool to add.

@clampr clampr added this to Triage in Meteostat Mar 17, 2022
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clampr commented Mar 17, 2022

That would certainly be nice.

However, we'd need to change the way Meteostat works to achieve that. Currently, model data is specifically stored and retrieved only for the locations where a weather station is installed.

Maybe we can set up a grid (e.g. 5 * 5 km) and provide model-based time series for each grid cell. Then, if there are no stations nearby or gaps in the series, we fall back to the closest grid cell.

Biggest challenge would certainly be the amount of data. If we want to have a reasonable resolution, we'll end up with millions of grid cells. I doubt this is feasible without bigger funding. But I agree it would improve data availability in remote areas (or those with few stations).

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Just curious, what is/are the source/s for model data?

Meteostat automation moved this from Triage to Done Mar 30, 2022
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