Access to the Catalogue
The PIKART catalog can be easily accessed using Python scripts
via the THREDDS data server (ver. Lade...):
https://ar.pik-potsdam.de/thredds/
Both the Lagrangian and the Eulerian version of the catalog are provided in NetCDF format, which is a widely used format for storing multi-dimensional scientific data. Both versions are also available based MERRA2 data. You can access the catalog remotely via the THREDDS data server. It is strongly recommended to access the data using Python, MATLAB, or any other analysis software (as suggested by the examples), allowing flexible clipping to a spatial region or extracting individual years. Direct download from the web page is not recommended, as it can cause high server load, may produce errors, does not allow reproducible data retrieval, and does not allow fine-grained data access.
Example scripts on how to get started can be found at the examples section.
