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