The PMIP3/CMIP5 data is stored in lots and lots of NetCDF binary files!

Luckily, you already know how to use NetCDF files!

Unfortunately, you may not be familiar at all with the NetCDF format and other types of binary files, and operations like combining many files, averaging (over the time and/or longitude/latitude axes, using the appropriate weighted averages), regridding, etc… may be difficult

Here are a few solutions that may help you:

• Use the Panoply program
  • Web site : http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/panoply/
  • User manual (courtesy of Anne Seidenglanz)
    Link to the original version
• Check if the tools you know can handle the NetCDF format and can plot maps
• Get help from a nearby modeller who is familiar with programming and NetCDF
• Learn how to program!
  The following tools may be useful:
  • UV-CDAT python distribution
  • other python distributions with the netcdf4, matplotlib and basemap modules
  • ferret
  • R
  • …
• …

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