Climate

The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) allows you to access its vast set of model data via a free account and a Python 3 package they provide as well. Unfortunately, a download limit of 30GB prevents the user to retrieve all public data. To circumvent this restriction, I wrote the package ecmwf_retrieve, which chops your request in small parts, sends all of them to the API of the ECMWF, and joins the retrieved data into one single file. »

The one thing a data scientist is needing most is, of course, data itself. Vast and well-formatted data. If you are interested in climatological one from Germany, the DWD will provide you with tons of files by the means of their FTP server. To ease the task of downloading, importing, and converting all the data into R, I wrote a package called dwd2r. »