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Using PMIP3-CMIP5 data

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

PMIP3 for modellers

Luckily, you already know how to use NetCDF files!

PMIP3 for non-modellers

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

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