from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function, unicode_literals) from .decorators import convert_units from .metadecorators import copy_and_set_metadata from .util import extract_vars, either # Need to handle either @copy_and_set_metadata(copy_varname=either("HGT", "HGT_M"), name="terrain", description="terrain height") @convert_units("height", "m") def get_terrain(wrfin, timeidx=0, method="cat", squeeze=True, cache=None, meta=False, _key=None, units="m"): """Return the terrain height in the specified units. This functions extracts the necessary variables from the NetCDF file object in order to perform the calculation. Args: wrfin (:class:`netCDF4.Dataset`, :class:`Nio.NioFile`, or an \ iterable): WRF-ARW NetCDF data as a :class:`netCDF4.Dataset`, :class:`Nio.NioFile` or an iterable sequence of the aforementioned types. timeidx (:obj:`int` or :data:`wrf.ALL_TIMES`, optional): The desired time index. This value can be a positive integer, negative integer, or :data:`wrf.ALL_TIMES` (an alias for None) to return all times in the file or sequence. The default is 0. method (:obj:`str`, optional): The aggregation method to use for sequences. Must be either 'cat' or 'join'. 'cat' combines the data along the Time dimension. 'join' creates a new dimension for the file index. The default is 'cat'. squeeze (:obj:`bool`, optional): Set to False to prevent dimensions with a size of 1 from being automatically removed from the shape of the output. Default is True. cache (:obj:`dict`, optional): A dictionary of (varname, ndarray) that can be used to supply pre-extracted NetCDF variables to the computational routines. It is primarily used for internal purposes, but can also be used to improve performance by eliminating the need to repeatedly extract the same variables used in multiple diagnostics calculations, particularly when using large sequences of files. Default is None. meta (:obj:`bool`, optional): Set to False to disable metadata and return :class:`numpy.ndarray` instead of :class:`xarray.DataArray`. Default is True. _key (:obj:`int`, optional): A caching key. This is used for internal purposes only. Default is None. units (:obj:`str`): The desired units. Refer to the :meth:`getvar` product table for a list of available units for 'ter'. Default is 'm'. Returns: :class:`xarray.DataArray` or :class:`numpy.ndarray`: The terrain height in the specified units. If xarray is enabled and the *meta* parameter is True, then the result will be a :class:`xarray.DataArray` object. Otherwise, the result will be a :class:`numpy.ndarray` object with no metadata. """ varname = either("HGT", "HGT_M")(wrfin) return extract_vars(wrfin, timeidx, varname, method, squeeze, cache, meta=False, _key=_key)[varname]