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

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