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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/
* {{:pmip3:database:visualizing_netcdf_panoply_seidenglanz.pdf|User manual}} (courtesy of Anne Seidenglanz)\\ [[http://www.geo.uni-bremen.de/Interdynamik/images/stories/pdf/visualizing_netcdf_panoply.pdf|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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