Zane Selvans wrote: > I have a model that calculates the tidal stress tensor (a symmetric > 2x2 matrix) on the surface of an icy satellite. It's just two > orthogonal vector fields on the surface of the body. I want to be > able to make pretty plots of the model output, including: > > * The magnitude of either one of the fields at any point > * The magnitude and orientation of either or both fields, as a grid of > little arrows, whose colors correspond to whether the value is > positive or negative. > * Animations of time (or other) series. > > I also want to be able to save the model output in a format that other > people can read and manipulate. Ideally, model run results could also > be hosted on a web server, and other people could view them remotely. > > I just re-wrote the model in pure Python (it had been written in C > previously), and I've been using my own hacked together ASCII file > format and a Perl script that builds GMT plots based on them to make > figures and visualizations up until now... but I'm sick of that and > want something more flexible. > > This all seems to suggest to me, after a little poking around, that > the NetCDF file format would be good. I've managed to get SciPy and > Matplotlib and Basemap installed and apparently working together > happily... but I can't seem to find any "official" module within that > structure for writing NetCDF files. There are references to the old > Scientific.IO.NetCDF package, and I found something that had been > hanging around in the scipy.sandbox area... but which isn't there any > more. There's quite a list of Python interfaces to NetCDF on the > Unidata website... but they don't make any recommendations as to which > is "best". > > If I'm going to be working within Matplotlib and Basemap and SciPy, > does anyone have a good recommendation for which NetCDF Python package > to use? Or issues I should consider? > > Thanks for any insight, > > Zane >
Zane: Basemap already includes a NetCDFFile function that can read netCDF and opendap (http://opendap.org) datasets. If you need to write netCDF, then netcdf4-python should do fine. -Jeff -- Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 NOAA/OAR/CDC R/PSD1 FAX : (303)497-6449 325 Broadway Boulder, CO, USA 80305-3328 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
