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Climate DT high resolution hourly data on single-level or surface, ICON,Historical, maps

This dataset contains surface variables from the second generation Climate Adaptation Digital Twin of the Destination Earth initiative. It includes data from the Historical Run (1990–2014) of the ICON model. This data was regridded from the original HEALPix H1024 grid to a regular latitude-longitude grid at approximately 0.044°. The temporal resolution is 1 hour.

The dataset's chunking is optimized for map visualization.

Accessing this dataset requires a Zarr v3-compatible library (e.g., zarr-python >= 3.x). Python users can upgrade via pip install "zarr>3".

Access is restricted to Destination Earth users with Upgraded Access.

How to download the data

This Python snippet includes the token directly in the URL.

1import xarray as xr
2
3xr.open_dataset(
4    "https://edh:<your API key>@api.earthdatahub.destine.eu/climate-dt-2/ICON-hist-sfc-hourly-high-maps-v0.zarr",
5    chunks={},
6    engine="zarr",
7    zarr_format=3,
8)

Variables

Short Name	Units	Description
avg_tprate	kg m^-2 s^-1	Time-mean total precipitation rate
d2m	K	2 metre dewpoint temperature
lsm	(0 - 1)	Land-sea mask
t2m	K	2 metre temperature
u10	m s^-1	10 metre U wind component
v10	m s^-1	10 metre V wind component