Identification

Title

MetPy

Abstract

MetPy is a collection of tools in Python for reading, visualizing, and performing calculations with weather data. The space MetPy aims for is GEMPAK (and maybe NCL)-like functionality, in a way that plugs easily into the existing scientific Python ecosystem (numpy, scipy, matplotlib). So, if you take the average GEMPAK script for a weather map, you need to: - read data - calculate a derived field - show on a map/skew-T One of the benefits hoped to achieve over GEMPAK is to make it easier to use these routines for any meteorological Python application; this means making it easy to pull out the LCL calculation and just use that, or re-use the Skew-T with your own data code. MetPy also prides itself on being well-documented and well-tested, so that on-going maintenance is easily manageable. The intended audience is that of GEMPAK: researchers, educators, and any one wanting to script up weather analysis. It doesn't even have to be scripting; all python meteorology tools are hoped to be able to benefit from MetPy. Conversely, it's hoped to be the meteorological equivalent of the audience of scipy/scikit-learn/skimage.

Resource type

software

Resource locator

https://pypi.org/project/MetPy/

name: Python Package Index

description: General Python package hosting for installation using pip.

function: download

https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/metpy

name: Anaconda packages

description: Packages for use with the conda package manager.

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG:4326

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Software

originating controlled vocabulary

title

Resource Type

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2017-08-15

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

East bounding longitude

North bounding latitude

South bounding latitude

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2015-05-01

Frequency of update

asNeeded

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

ZIP

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

BSD 3 clause license https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Unidata/MetPy/master/LICENSE

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Software Engineer/Programmer

organisation name

Unidata

telephone number

303-497-8679

email address

support-python@unidata.ucar.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

Software Engineer/Programmer

organisation name

Unidata

telephone number

303-497-8679

email address

rmay@ucar.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2018-03-27T23:17:45

Metadata language

eng