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Usage

🚀 Running the WCRP Plugins

To run the WCRP plugins , use the following command:

compliance-checker -t ''check''  ''filepath''

Example for WCRP CMIP6 plugin : 

compliance-checker  -t wcrp_cmip6:1.0  path/to/data/CMIP6/CMIP/IPSL/IPSL-CM5A2-INCA/historical/r1i1p1f1/Amon/pr/gr/v20240619/pr_Amon_IPSL-CM5A2-INCA_historical_r1i1p1f1_gr_185001-201412.nc
  • If you don’t pass -f, the default output is text.
  • Output Formats : text ( default) / html / json (single input file only) / json_new (handles multiple files).

⚠️ CF plugin: Always run the CF checks as well when running the WCRP project checks, to ensure that CF-only checks (not duplicated in WCRP projects) are also verified.

Run several checks

compliance-checker   -t cf:1.11 -t wcrp_cmip6:1.0 path/to/data/CMIP6/CMIP/IPSL/IPSL-CM5A2-INCA/historical/r1i1p1f1/Amon/pr/gr/v20240619/pr_Amon_IPSL-CM5A2-INCA_historical_r1i1p1f1_gr_185001-201412.nc

Save output to a file

compliance-checker -t wcrp_cmip6:1.0 file.nc -f text(json/html) -o qc.txt(json/html)

Skip / Include Specific WCRP_Project Checks

  • Only use check names from the wcrp_project (wcrp_cmip6 for example) suite here.

To skip checks :

# Here we skip check_Global_Variable_Attributes from WCRP CMIP6 Plugin for example
compliance-checker -t wcrp_cmip6:1.0 file.nc -s  check_Global_Variable_Attributes

To include checks ( we do only checks belonging to this specific checks)

# Here we do only check_Drs_Vocabulary from WCRP CMIP6 Plugin for example
compliance-checker -t wcrp_cmip6:1.0 file.nc -i check_Drs_Vocabulary

To list all available checks

compliance-checker -l

Multiple files

  • Use shell wildcards/globs, and use json_new if you want one detailed JSON for all files:
# Here we skip check_Global_Variable_Attributes from WCRP CMIP6 Plugin for example
compliance-checker -t wcrp_cmip6 /data/CMIP6/**/*.nc -f json_new