Data Loaders¶
Loaders open a data source and return a preprocessed xr.Dataset. The type field in the source config block selects which loader to use.
| Loader | type value |
Description |
|---|---|---|
| xarray | xarray |
Any format supported by xarray.open_dataset: NetCDF, Zarr, GRIB, HDF5, and more. Accepts local paths and fsspec URIs (gs://, s3://, https://). |
| intake | intake |
Dataset from an intake-forecast catalog. Requires pip install "gridstats[extra]". |
For custom loaders see Custom Plugins.