Selecting members

This section describes how to subset data that are part of an ensemble. To combine ensembles, see ensembles in the Combining datasets section.

If a dataset is an ensemble, you can select one or more specific members using the number option. You can also use numbers (which is an alias for number), and member (or members). The difference between the two is that number is 1-based, while member is 0-based.

Select a single element:

ds = open_dataset(
    dataset,
    number=1,
)

… or a list:

ds = open_dataset(
    dataset,
    number=[1, 3, 5],
)