Welcome to earthkit’s documentation
Warning
This project is in the BETA stage of development. Please be aware that interfaces and functionality may change as the project develops. If this software is to be used in operational systems you are strongly advised to use a released tag in your system configuration, and you should be willing to accept incoming changes and bug fixes that require adaptations on your part. ECMWF does use this software in operations and abides by the same caveats.
earthkit is a new open-source Python project led by ECMWF, providing powerful tools for speeding up weather and climate science workflows by simplifying data access, processing, analysis, visualisation and much more.
earthkit offers multiple interoperable software components built on top of well-established open-source Python libraries like numpy, pandas and matplotlib. earthkit also integrates and leverages the robust and operations-ready software stack that is familiar to ECMWF production systems (e.g. ecCodes, FDB, etc).
The interface of earthkit components is designed to be high-level in order to provide common tools to support activities across ECMWF and beyond. The design of the components also takes scalability into account, so researchers can enjoy efficiency whilst providing easier transfer to operations.
earthkit is still under development but some components are already available in beta through PyPI and their GitHub repositories.
Examples
Components
Installation