Python interface to the CF conventions
Project description
CF Python
The Python cf package is an Earth science data analysis library that is built on a complete implementation of the CF data model
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Functionality
The cf package implements the CF data model (https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-4619-2017) for its internal data structures and so is able to process any CF-compliant dataset. It is not strict about CF-compliance, however, so that partially conformant datasets may be ingested from existing datasets and written to new datasets. This is so that datasets which are partially conformant may nonetheless be modified in memory.
The cf package can:
read field constructs from netCDF, PP and UM datasets,
create new field constructs in memory,
inspect field constructs,
test whether two field constructs are the same,
modify field construct metadata and data,
create subspaces of field constructs,
write field constructs to netCDF datasets on disk,
incorporate, and create, metadata stored in external files,
read, write, and create data that have been compressed by convention (i.e. ragged or gathered arrays), whilst presenting a view of the data in its uncompressed form,
combine field constructs arithmetically,
manipulate field construct data by arithmetical and trigonometrical operations,
perform statistical collapses on field constructs,
perform histogram, percentile and binning operations on field constructs,
regrid field constructs,
apply convolution filters to field constructs,
calculate derivatives of field constructs,
create field constructs to create derived quantities (such as vorticity).
Visualization
Powerful, flexible, and very simple to produce visualizations of field constructs are available with the cfplot package (http://ajheaps.github.io/cf-plot), that needs to be installed seprately to the cf package.
See the cfplot gallery (http://ajheaps.github.io/cf-plot/gallery.html) for the full range range plotting possibilities with example code.
Command line utilities
During installation the cfa command line utility is also installed, which
generates text descriptions of field constructs contained in files, and
creates new datasets aggregated from existing files.
Tests
Tests are run from within the cf/test directory:
python run_tests.py
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