IRIS

Meteorology and Climatology

Iris is a powerful, Python library for analysing and visualising meteorological and oceanographic data sets. It includes data manipulation operations, such as arithmetic, interpolation, and statistics; and a range of integrated plotting options.

Iris currently supports read/write access to a range of data formats, including (CF-)netCDF, GRIB, and PP files.

Core Features

• Use a single API to work on your data, irrespective of its original format.
• Read and write (CF-)netCDF, GRIB, and PP files.
• Easily produce graphs and maps via integration with matplotlib and cartopy.

Details

Website: http://scitools.org.uk/iris/

Licence: LGPLv3

Software Version: 1.4

Supported Platforms: Cross Platform Python– Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux

API Interfaces: Python

Support: http://www.scitools.org.uk/iris/community.html

Quickstart

• Quickstart documentation