Welcome to the web version of “Analyzing ESM data with python”

Contents:

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. How to use these notes
    • 1.1.1. Interactive jupyter notebooks (recommended)
    • 1.1.2. Non-interactive via the web (HTML, pdf, epub)
  • 1.2. Contributing
  • 1.3. Credits
• 2. Basics of accessing data
  • 2.1. Synopsis
  • 2.2. About netcdf
  • 2.3. Opening a dataset
  • 2.4. Variables
  • 2.5. Reading all or part of a 1-d data array
  • 2.6. Shape of data
  • 2.7. Reading multi-dimensional data
  • 2.8. Summary
• 3. Basic visualization of 2d data
  • 3.1. Synopsis
  • 3.2. pyplot from matplotlib
  • 3.3. Summary
• 4. Problems with curvilinear/spherical coordinates
  • 4.1. Synopisis
  • 4.2. A look at some model output on a tri-polar grid
  • 4.3. Plot without physical coordinates (plot with data-indices)
  • 4.4. Plot using projection coordinates
  • 4.5. Plot using geographic coordinates
  • 4.6. Mesh vs data coordinates (cell bounds)
  • 4.7. Plotting cell-by-cell with geographic coordinates (to illustrate a problem)
  • 4.8. Extracting and plotting with geographic mesh coordinates
  • 4.9. Comments
  • 4.10. Summary
• 5. Visualizing spherical data using cartopy
  • 5.1. Synopsis
  • 5.2. Get going with cartopy
  • 5.3. Extract geographic mesh coordinates
  • 5.4. The Plate-Carree projection
  • 5.5. Other projections
  • 5.6. Avoiding re-organization of the mesh data
  • 5.7. Summary
• 6. Reading and plotting with xarray
  • 6.1. Synopsis
  • 6.2. xarray
  • 6.3. Summary
• 7. Reading and plotting with Iris
  • 7.1. Synopsis
  • 7.2. Iris
  • 7.3. Summary
• 8. Deeper dive into pcolormesh()
  • 8.1. Synopsis
  • 8.2. Some test data
  • 8.3. Simple pcolormesh via matplotlib.pyplot
  • 8.4. pcolormesh via cartopy
  • 8.5. pcolormesh via xarray
  • 8.6. Summary
• 9. Coordinates, Projections, and Grids
  • 9.1. Synopisis
  • 9.2. Coordinate systems
    • 9.2.1. Spherical coordinates
    • 9.2.2. Geographic coordinates
  • 9.3. Projections
    • 9.3.1. Equirectangular projection
    • 9.3.2. Mercator projection
    • 9.3.3. Lines
  • 9.4. ESM grids
    • 9.4.1. Simple spherical coordinate grid
    • 9.4.2. Not to use great arcs
  • 9.5. Contents of grid files
  • 9.6. Summary
• 10. Operations on a grid
  • 10.1. Synopsis
  • 10.2. Summary

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• Index
• Module Index
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