/CMIP5Plotter

Interactive Script to Analyze CMIP5 Climate Model Predictions

Primary LanguagePython

CMIP5Plotter

This is a simple interactive script to analyze CMIP5 climate model predictions.

The code files in this repository are:

  • config.py: Configuration file to process and plot different variables
  • process.py: Processes netcdf data into npz files for display
  • plot.py: Displays npz files created with process.py interactively

The configuration variables are:

  • process.py configuration
    • dataDir: directory where data is being stored
    • cacheDir: directory to store npz cache and output data
    • landSeaFile: file containing mask determining whether an latitude/longitude is land or sea
    • dataFilesRCP26: NetCDF files containing RCP2.6 experiment data (to be averaged)
    • dataFilesRCP85: NetCDF files containing RCP8.5 experiment data (to be averaged)
    • varOfInterest: Variable to analyze
  • Universal configuration
    • numMonths: Total number of months of climate model data to analyze
    • startYear: The starting year
    • latitudeRes: The latitude resolution
    • longitudeRes: The longitude resolution
    • realm: Which locations of Earth to plot
  • plot.py configuration
    • processedDataFile: The file contining processed data
    • play_interval: The number of milliseconds between each frame when playing
    • (I'll write the others later if I feel like it. I'm tired.)

I have some samples of output here