Working with Climate Data: Glossary

A Dataset may contain one or more DataArrays

Saving intermediate datasets to disk is a good way to break large data analysis tasks into manageable, repeatable steps.

Aggregation functions are used often in climate data analysis, and are made easy with xarray

Masking is another powerful tool for working with data.

pcolormesh plots data as a grid of color shades corresponding to the data’s grid

Interpolating different data sets to a common grid is necessary to perform quantitative comparisons or to combine data.

Don’t automatically accept your result. Scrutinize, try to understand the features you see. Do they mean what you think they should mean?