Create your own data network

If you have data from observations in an Excel or CSV file and want to create netCDF files that Providentia can visualise, you can use NES, a library created by the Earth Sciences Department to easily read and write netCDF files containing geospatial data in different projections (regular, rotated, Mercator, etc.).

You can install it by cloning the repository:

pip install nes

You can learn how to create your own datasets with NES following the tutorials 5. Create hourly datasets from Port Barcelona and 6. Create monthly datasets from CSIC in the tutorials folder

Providentia will be able to find these datasets if they are stored in the path specified in the nonghost_root key under the corresponding machine in the settings/data_paths.yaml file. The name of the network must be included in the nonghost_available_networks list in settings/available_inputs.yaml.