Problem using categories on daily data

[BenjaminMews]

If I try to restrict the categories in library usage (daily resolution), no precipitation is found for any station. Without the restriction to category_names I can derive "precipitation_height" from results. Is that wanted behaviour or a bug?

[amotl]

Dear Benjamin,

thanks for writing in. There's an anomaly in categories correlating to resolutions. While the precipitation category will work on hourly and 10_minutes resolutions, the appropriate category will be daily_observations for the daily resolution.

The background on this is that the baseline data of the daily resolution data set [1] is coming from the kl folder. Currently, we are ingesting data from the kl, soil_temperature and solar folders within [1], see also [2]. We haven't touched the more_precip, water_equiv and weather_phenomena folders yet.

I've actually expected people to run into this issue but haven't had the chance to document this appropriately yet. Sorry for that!

With kind regards,
Andreas.

[1] https://opendata.dwd.de/climate_environment/CDC/observations_germany/climate/daily/
[2] https://github.com/panodata/dwdweather2/blob/0.13.0/dwdweather/knowledge.py#L58-L243

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Example

dwdweather weather 44 2020-06-04 --resolution daily --categories daily_observations --reset-cache

"precipitation_form": 4,
"precipitation_height": 8.8,

[amotl]

Dear @BenjaminMews,

Wetterdienst will be the designated successor library for dwdweather2. You might be interested to switch over.

Further, I am deliberately closing this issue. Feel free to reopen anytime.

With kind regards,
Andreas.

cc @gutzbenj

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wetterdienst readings --resolution=daily --parameter=kl --period=recent --station=44