Introduction

Overview of AQUA

AQUA (Climate DT Applications for QUality Assessment) is a model evaluation framework designed for accessing and running diagnostics on high-resolution data produced by climate models. The package provides a flexible and efficient framework to process and analyze large volumes of climate data. With its modular design, AQUA offers seamless integration of core functions and a wide range of diagnostic tools that can be run in parallel.

The repository for the AQUA core functionalities (data access and preprocessing) is the AQUA-core repository and the documentation refers to this repository for core functionalities. The diagnostics are implemented in the AQUA-diagnostics repository and their documentation is available at the AQUA-diagnostics documentation site.

The AQUA-diagnostics repository contains the full set of diagnostic tools developed for the Destination Earth Adaptation Climate Digital Twin (ClimateDT). It is designed to be used together with the AQUA core framework which provides data access and preprocessing functionalities.

Purpose

The purpose of AQUA core is to allow an easy access and processing of high-resolution climate models outputs, making it easier for researchers and scientists to analyze and interpret climate data. AQUA core aims to provide a comprehensive toolkit for data preparation on climate model outputs.

Key Features

  • Efficient handling of large datasets from high-resolution climate models

  • Support for various data formats, such as GRIB, NetCDF, Zarr, FDB, ARCO and Parquet access

  • Robust and fast regridding functionality

  • Averaging and aggregation tools for temporal and spatial analyses

  • Metadata and coordinate fixes for data homogenization and comparison

  • Modular design for easy expansion and integration of new functionalities

  • Lazy data access and parallel processing for faster execution of processing pipelines, with limited memory usage

Contributing

AQUA core is developed under the European Union Contract DE_340_CSC - Destination Earth Programme Climate Adaptation Digital Twin (Climate DT). Contributions to the project are welcome and can be made through the GitHub repository. Please refer to the Contribution Guidelines contained in the CONTRIBUTING.md file in the repository for more information.