xnemogcm 0.3.0

Interface to open NEMO global circulation model output dataset and create a xgcm grid.

xnemogcm

Interface to open NEMO ocean global circulation model output dataset and create a xgcm grid.

One can be interested by the XORCA python package, that does a similar work for all NEMO output grid. xnemogcm is designed to be more simple and adapted to a simple idealized configuration.

Usage

xnemogcm is capable or recombining the domain_cfg and mesh_mask files, the recombining tool from the NEMO toolbox is thus not needed here.

from pathlib import Path
from xnemogcm import open_nemo_and_domain_cfg

# Next line will open all the nemo files containing "grid_X" in their name ("X" being "T", "U", "V", "W", etc)
# All the files containing "domain_cfg" or "mesh_mask" will also be opened
ds = open_nemo_and_domain_cfg(
    nemo_files='/path/to/output/files',
    domcfg_files='/path/to/domain_cfg/mesh_mask/files'
)

# It is possible to give a list of the precise files
ds = open_nemo_and_domain_cfg(
    nemo_files=Path('/path/to/nemo/files/').glob('ORCA_1m_*grid_*.nc'),
    domcfg_files=['/path/to/mesh_mask/mesh_mask_0000.nc', '/path/to/mesh_mask/mesh_mask_0001.nc']
)

# Interface with xgcm
from xnemogcm import get_metrics
import xgcm
grid = xgcm.Grid(ds, metrics=get_metrics(ds), periodic=False)

Installation

Installation via pip:

pip3 install xnemogcm

Requirements for dev

We use pipenv to set up a virtual environment containing all needed packages to run xnemogcm and the tests. To install all the dependencies, type pipenv install after cloning the directory. This will create a new virtual environment. Typing pipenv shell in the package directory will activate the virtual environment.

What's new

v0.3.0 (2021-04-13)

• Cleaning the backend
• Removing the saving options (that were useless and confusing)
• Minor bug fixes
• Tested with realistic regional configuration

v0.2.3 (2021-03-15)

• Support for surface only files
• Reshaping the data files for the tests (dev)