English: Animation of atmospheric mean sea level pressure (contours: every 5 hPa) and rainfall rate (in millimeters per hour) over Central Europe in July 1997. Each animation frame represents one hour of real time. Rainfall rate has the the accumulation period over the 1 hour ending at indicated frame time.

Meteorological data for the animation has been sourced from the ERA5 Climate Reanalysis produced by ECMWF and published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Geographical data comes from Natural Earth database published under Public Domain license.

The animation has been created using matplotlib, numpy, cartopy and pygrib libraries for Python programming language.

Full source code used to create the animation is available at: https://github.com/Quba1/great-flood-animation

Reference list: Hersbach, H., Bell, B., Berrisford, P., Hirahara, S., Horányi, A., Muñoz‐Sabater, J., Nicolas, J., Peubey, C., Radu, R., Schepers, D., Simmons, A., Soci, C., Abdalla, S., Abellan, X., Balsamo, G., Bechtold, P., Biavati, G., Bidlot, J., Bonavita, M., De Chiara, G., Dahlgren, P., Dee, D., Diamantakis, M., Dragani, R., Flemming, J., Forbes, R., Fuentes, M., Geer, A., Haimberger, L., Healy, S., Hogan, R.J., Hólm, E., Janisková, M., Keeley, S., Laloyaux, P., Lopez, P., Lupu, C., Radnoti, G., de Rosnay, P., Rozum, I., Vamborg, F., Villaume, S., Thépaut, J-N. (2017): Complete ERA5 from 1979: Fifth generation of ECMWF atmospheric reanalyses of the global climate. Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Data Store (CDS). (Accessed on 08-10-2022)

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