User Guide for Polytope Feature Extraction on ECMWF Data

Introduction

Polytope is a service which enables users to download "features" from entire datacubes of earth system data. The best way to access this data is via earthkit-data.

Follow the links below to see how to request different types of features.

Feature Documentation

• Time Series
• Vertical Profile
• Polygon
• Bounding Box
• Trajectory
• Circle
• Position

Notes

Some important notes that hold for all features are that:

• The data has to exist in the FDB on the polytope server.
• Further details on the from_source method can be found here.