"""get_ww3.py Show available variables inside WW3 dataset D. Howe 2019-08-28 """ import netCDF4 import pandas as pd import xarray as xr from tqdm import tqdm # Set product code product_code = 'ww3.aus_4m' # Set month date = '2013-01' url = ('http://data-cbr.csiro.au/thredds/dodsC/catch_all/' 'CMAR_CAWCR-Wave_archive/CAWCR_Wave_Hindcast_aggregate/gridded/') # Get date string for current month date_str = pd.to_datetime(date).strftime('%Y%m') # Open dataset ds = xr.open_dataset(url + f'{product_code}.{date_str}.nc') # Extract variables metadata rows = [] for key, val in ds.variables.items(): row = {} row['name'] = key row['description'] = val.attrs['long_name'] try: row['units'] = val.attrs['units'] except KeyError: row['units'] = '-' rows.append(row) # Show data df = pd.DataFrame(rows).set_index('name') print(df)