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Building and Running XIOS and NEMO4 on PSMN (ENS de Lyon HPC) with partition E5.

We take the first step of downloading, compiling and testing XIOS and NEMO4 code on PSMN (ENS de Lyon; Lyon, France). This is a post based on an installation...

Building ROSS025 on NEMO4.2 on ARCHER2.

We take the steps of building a regional Ross Sea configuration using NEMO 4.2 on ARCHER2. This post is written by TiPACCs PDRA Alethea Mountford (alethea.mo...

Building WED025 on NEMO4.2 on ARCHER2.

Building and Running NEMO4 on ARCHER2 full system.

We take the first step of downloading, compiling and testing NEMO4 code on ARCHER2 on the full system (December 2021).

Building and Running NEMO4 on ARCHER2.

We take the first step of downloading, compiling and testing NEMO4 code on ARCHER2.

Build the inital state and forcing fields for WED12 (Step 5)

Building the initial state and forcing fields for WED12.

Pre-processing tools for WED12 (Step 4)

Building the pre-processing tools

Building WED12 (Step 3)

Starting the WED12 configuration (compiling NEMO and NEMO’s maketools)

Testing NEMO (Step 2)

Running an idealised test case configuration with NEMO

Downloading NEMO and installing XIOS on ARCHER (Step 1)

We take the first step of downloading, compiling and testing NEMO code on ARCHER

Python package for gridding subplots, fast!

Plthacks is a Python package that wraps Matplotlib to make common (tedius) tasks faster, this post is about creating a grid of an arbitrary number of plots f...

Python package for one-line creation of movies from netCDF files.

Update 10.10.2016. MkMov 0.4 now supports a bunch of other outputs, see usage for details.

Bash function for super fast loading of netCDF files in Python.

I often finding myself wanting basic information about netCDF files and needing to inspect it in Python quickly.

Programmatic paper writing with MkPaper

MkPaper creates a figure document in 3 + n lines of code, where n is the number of figures you have!

Vim and netCDF files.

I often finding myself wanting basic information about netCDF files when writing scripts that read/write netCDF files…

Beautiful argument parsing with docopt and ultisnips.

I recently discovered docopt, this super neat command line parser. I’ve used sys.argv and the argparse module but they’ve always felt too limited or overly c...

Grabbing paths straight to the clipboard.

Do you remember the moment when you realised in Linux that clicking the mouse wheel pasted selected text? I had a similar reveleation when I discovered xclip...

Bash function for painless rsync.

My life consists of two problems…

Editing files remotely

I often find myself wanting to edit a file on a remote machine but ssh is too slow to be running a text editor on the remote machine.. Solution? Vim can use ...

Gotcha in Pandas using HDFStore frame_tables

Recently, I changed from using regular pytable HDFStores to fancy frame_tables. The move was mostly for the better as my HDFStores were big. Of course, my ol...

Bug with Matplotlib when making movies.

I wanted to make a movie, the plan was to use Matplotlib to make the frames and then stitch them together using ffmpeg. The problem I had was that I’d make a...

Scipy.interpolate.griddata regridding data.

Climate scientists are always wanting data on different grids. Python docs are typically excellent but I couldn’t find a nice example using rectangular/mesh ...

New to using Python for data analysis?

Attention climate scientists. Python is the way of the future! Wondering why? Read over Johnny Lin’s article. Then check out my Python resources page.