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license: cc-by-4.0
CREST forcing (parquet)
EF5/CREST hourly forcing for CONUS, 2016-present, packed as one tar per variable/year.
| dir | variable | source | cadence |
|---|---|---|---|
mrms/ |
precipitation | MRMS QPE (corrected) | hourly |
temp/ |
2 m temperature | NLDAS-2 FORA | hourly |
pet/ |
potential ET | FEWS NET daily PET | daily |
Each *.tar expands to individual .pqf (Apache Arrow parquet) grids readable by the
EF5 v4.5 native parquet reader. Used by the Space vincewin/CREST_AI.
Download + extract one year, e.g.:
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
import tarfile
p = hf_hub_download("vincewin/CREST_data", "mrms/mrms_2023.tar", repo_type="dataset")
tarfile.open(p).extractall("forcing/mrms")