What are events?

In this section we shall provide a description of what events are.

xarray

This library is based on xarray. As such, we encourage you to first become familiar with it before continuing with this guide. Their official documentation does already a fantastic job at explaining in detail every aspect of their approach on managing data.

Concept

Now that you’re familiar with xarray, let’s describe what we mean by events.

The dictionary definition goes along the lines of the occurrence of something. Ours doesn’t deviate much from this. Depending on the kind of data that the Dataset stores, events can be seen as occurrences of systematic processes that share the same characteristics of the data. Hence, we expect the attributes or dimensions of an event to be shared to some extent with the dimensions of the data described by the Dataset.