How do I download 10 m and 80 m wind data for a range of dates?

[blaylockbk]

From an email:

"I want to download just the 10 m and 80 m winds for the model analysis for a short period of time."

[blaylockbk]

The secret sauce is knowing how to specify the search string to find both the U and V wind field for 10 m and 80 m winds. In this case, we use regular expression to set searchString='(?:U|V)GRD:(?:10|80) m'

from herbie.tools import fast_Herbie_download
import pandas as pd

# Range of dates (in UTC) at hourly frequency, for 3 days
DATES = pd.date_range('2021-02-01 00:00', '2021-02-03 00:00', freq='1H')

# Download the data, just U and V winds at 10 and 80 m for the model analysis
d = fast_Herbie_download(
    DATES, 
    model='hrrr', 
    product='sfc',
    searchString='(?:U|V)GRD:(?:10|80) m', 
    fxx=0
)

More examples of Fast Herbie in the docs

More examples of specifying the searchString in the docs

[blaylockbk]

Of course, if you only need data for a small area instead of the full CONUS domain, you can use the HRRR-Zarr archive on AWS. I haven't gone down this road yet, but there are example notebooks linked here.

[jahanbani]

@blaylockbk
The above answer throws an error. Would it be possible to download data for a range of time using the latest Herbie?

[blaylockbk]

Ah, yes. The function name changed since this post was published. The correct function is fast_Herbie_download

from herbie.tools import fast_Herbie_download

I updated the post.