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| license: cc-by-4.0 |
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| # CREST forcing (parquet) |
| EF5/CREST hourly forcing for CONUS, 2016-present, packed as **one tar per variable/year**. |
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| | 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 | |
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| 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`. |
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| Download + extract one year, e.g.: |
| ```python |
| 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") |
| ``` |
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