netCDF-SCM

netCDF-SCM is a Python package for processing netCDF files. It focusses on metrics which are relevant to simple climate models and is built on top of the Iris package.

netCDF-SCM is free software under a BSD 3-Clause License, see LICENSE. If you make any use of netCDF-SCM, please cite the Geoscience Data Journal (GDJ) paper (Nicholls et al., GDJ 2021) as well as the relevant Zenodo release.

Disclaimer

One of the most common uses of netCDF-SCM is for processing Coupled Model Intercomparison Project data. If this is your use case, please note that you must abide by the terms of use of the data, in particular the required acknowledgement statements (see the CMIP5 terms of use, CMIP6 terms of use and CMIP6 GMD Special Issue).

To make it easier to do this, we have developed some basic tools which simplify the process of checking model license terms and creating the tables required in publications to cite CMIP data (check them out here). However, we provide no guarantees that these tools are up to date so all users should double check that they do in fact produce output consistent with the terms of use referenced above (and if there are issues, please raise an issue at our issue tracker :) ).

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