Climate Data - Where? How?: Glossary

Key Points

Where to get Climate Datasets

  • Don’t download big datasets to your /homes directory!
Data File Formats

  • NetCDF is now the most common climate data format.

  • xarray wants to be your best friend - let it!
OPeNDAP and GRIB

  • OPeNDAP allows remote access to datasets across the Internet without downloading files.

  • xarray renders differences between local and remote data, and between different data file formats nearly imperceptable.

Glossary

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