[MITgcm-support] Converting mdsio output to netcdf, or reading mdsio in python

[cimatori]

If there is a MITgcm python package, I will gladly shift to mds output 
(which seems a lot faster).

Andrea Cimatoribus
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
www.knmi.nl/~cimatori

On 10/25/2012 04:07 PM, Ryan Abernathey wrote:
> Hi Andrea,
>
> You have 3 options:
> - Simply read the mds files into python using np.fromfile (they are 
> just raw binary data)
> - Use Oliver Jahn's MITgcm python utils package, which contains a 
> python mdsio and many other useful scripts (Oliver, is this publicly 
> available yet?)
> - Upgrade your code to the latest version of layers, which now does 
> output via the diagnostics package and therefore should support netcdf 
> format. (Disclaimer: I have not tested netcdf output, but maybe Gael 
> has?)
>
> Personally, I actually prefer mds output. The main reason is that 
> netcdf does not support singleCPUio and consequently produces a 
> ridiculous amount of output files that then have to be glued together 
> in a separate step.
>
> Best,
> Ryan
>
>
> On Oct 25, 2012, at 6:26 AM, cimatori wrote:
>
>> Hi everybody,
>> I have a technical issue which is probably rather common. I am using 
>> layers package to compute the stream function in density, but layers 
>> package can produce output only in the meta/data format. 
>> Unfortunately, I have no matlab available, and all my scripts are 
>> based on netcdf format. Is there a way convert meta/data to netcdf? 
>> Is there an easy way to read meta/data files in python?
>> I do have access to octave (an open source version of matlab) if that 
>> can help.
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Andrea Cimatoribus
>> Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
>> www.knmi.nl/~cimatori
>>
>>
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