Reading Time Series from netCDF with python for a specific location and time is in seconds

Question

I'm trying to extract a time series csv from a netcdf file. I have a tried a few options and it seems that using xarray is the simplest one.

My variables I want are 'time' 'stage' and I want to specify the coords of 'x' and 'y' Time happens to be in seconds, which messed me up when I tried the netCDF4 answers on this site.

I tried the following

import xarray as xr

 
ds = xr.open_dataset('boundary_conditions.sts') 
xi = 125285.25; yi = 42519.85  


dsloc = ds.sel(x=xi, y=yi, method='nearest')

dsloc['stage'].plot()

But I don't get past the 'dsloc' section as it says x is not defined.

Ideally I would also like to export it as a csv.

I'm sure it's an easy fix but I don't know what it is...

please help

This is the file if it helps

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dr3k7zynt54joti/boundary_conditions.sts?dl=0

Answer 1

Ideally, you would provide a reproducible example, but the following code should probably replace your final line:

dsloc.stage.plot()