pyradtran.era5.select_profile

pyradtran.era5.select_profile(ds: Dataset, latitude: float | None = None, longitude: float | None = None, time: str | datetime | datetime64 | None = None) → Dataset

Select a single vertical profile from a (normalised) ERA5 dataset.

Handles datasets that still carry spatial/time dimensions as well as ones already reduced to a single column. Selection is nearest-neighbour.

Returns:

Profile with pressure_level as the only remaining dimension, loaded into memory.

Return type:

xarray.Dataset