⚠️ Package Has Been Renamed! ⚠️

This package, cmip_ref, is deprecated and no longer maintained.

It has been renamed to climate-ref.

Please Update Your Dependencies

To continue receiving updates and ensure compatibility, please switch to the new package.

Reason for rename: The rename was necessary to better reflect the purpose and scope of the package.

How to Switch

1. Uninstall the old package:

   pip uninstall cmip_ref
   

2. Install the new package:

   pip install climate-ref
   

3. Update your code/requirements:

   • Change any import statements from import cmip_ref to import climate_ref.
   • Update your requirements.txt, pyproject.toml, setup.py, or other dependency management files to list climate-ref instead of cmip_ref.

Project Links

• New Package on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/climate-ref/

REF (Rapid Evaluation Framework)

Status: This project is in active development. We expect to be ready for beta releases in Q2 2025.

The Rapid Evaluation Framework(REF) is a set of Python packages that provide the ability to manage the execution of calculations against climate datasets. The aim is to be able to evaluate climate data against a set of reference data in near-real time as datasets are published, and to update any produced data and figures as new datasets become available. This is somewhat analogous to a CI/CD pipeline for climate data.

REF is a community project, and we welcome contributions from anyone.

Usage

The ref package exposes a command line interface (CLI) that can be used to interact with the