A tool for errors detection in hydrometeorological simulation results obtained with different metocean models.
This tool is considered to be a part of Metocean Simulation Results Validation Framework. The experiments are based mainly on simulation results obtained with 3 models:
- NEMO (ocean model)+ LIM3 module (ice model): Ice aggregation and dynamics, tracers (sea surface height, temperature, salinity), currents
- WRF (atmosphere model): pressure, temperature, directions
- WaveWatch III (ocean wave model): significant height of wind and swell, mean direction and frequency, directions
The tool focuses on technical validation of simulation results, such as:
- Search for some missing resulted files
- Search for some for fully-corrupted files or with incorrect meta-data
- Check for the presence of all variables
- Check that variables correspond to correct dimensions
- Check that variables do not contain invalid values, such as
nanorinf
The simulation results are stored in NetCDF format which allows you to effectively handle multidimensional data arrays.
To work with NetCDF a Python library netcdf4-python by Unidata is used that provides a good interface for NetCDF C library.