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[BUG] Read HRRR projection system from source grib file

Open piyushrpt opened this issue 2 years ago • 4 comments

Describe the bug

  • Just remembered that the projection system is hardcoded currently here: https://github.com/dbekaert/RAiDER/blob/0d3af08917e171318bac1694d1663ede8e3fc974/tools/RAiDER/models/hrrr.py#L57-L70
  • This is only true for CONUS and not for other flavors like Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico

To Reproduce For CONUS, this hard-coded values appears to be correct

> gdalsrsinfo -o proj4  ~/Downloads/hrrr.t00z.wrfprsf00.grib2

+proj=lcc +lat_0=38.5 +lon_0=-97.5 +lat_1=38.5 +lat_2=38.5 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +R=6371229 +units=m +no_defs

Is not correct for Alaska

> gdalsrsinfo -o proj4 ~/Downloads/hrrr.t00z.wrfprsf00.ak.grib2

+proj=stere +lat_0=90 +lat_ts=60 +lon_0=225 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +R=6371229 +units=m +no_defs

Additional context

  • This might need some testing with rasterio, to see if it can interpret CRS correctly when using profile()
  • Else, might have to parse attributes of a variable in the grib file to interpret the system correctly.

piyushrpt avatar Dec 13 '22 01:12 piyushrpt

Should we not just extract the projection when we are loading the model. Similar to what @piyushrpt shows above from GRIBB file. Is there a need to have the proj defined in the init ?

dbekaert avatar Dec 15 '22 03:12 dbekaert

Thats the right thing to do - but still to be determined if rasterio can read the projection correctly, or you need to write a custom function to parse the grib attributes etc.

piyushrpt avatar Dec 15 '22 03:12 piyushrpt

The zarr data has geo-metadata that can be successfully read by rasterio. You could potentially save the constant CRS depending the geographic region that's required, and assign it.

cmarshak avatar Dec 19 '22 17:12 cmarshak

@jlmaurer @bbuzz31 We need to add a check that only HRRR conus is supported with a hard-coded projection, or change our code to read it from the file directly. We are at risk if HYP3 plug in ask data for hawaii to use conus hard-coded projection.

We should also check if the model validity period needs to change for HRRR conus versus HRRR alaska. Especially the start date.

dbekaert avatar Mar 17 '23 17:03 dbekaert