euroclimate

A project to model & visualize Europe's climate.

Includes:

• a website to learn about European countries contribution to climate
• a Python library to:
  • generate geospatial visualizations
  • model the Earth's climate

Getting Started

Either install:

• Python >= 3.12 and Poetry yourself
• nix & enter the nix shell

Then:

• poetry install to install Python deps
• poetry run python euroclimate to generate default visualizations

Python Library

Terrain

Requires a netCDF data file. You can download the GEBCO dataset: https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/open_download/gebco/gebco_2024/zip/

Then either place the unzipped .nc file in:

• a path of your choice and set ENV VAR EUROCLIMATE_NC_PATH to that path
• euroclimate/data/terrain/terrain.nc in this project's source files

import euroclimate.terrain as terrain

print(terrain.elevation(-90, 180))