Hey all,
For the past few day's I've been working with Chris Jack (cjack) at the
Climate Systems Analysis Group (CSAG) at the University of Cape Town.
and he's shown me a couple of really neat python libraries that he's
built over the past few years to support the operation of their Climate
Information Portal (CIP) [1]. There are a few things here that I think
might really be beneficial to OCW, since some of what CIP has had to
think about about is relevant to discussions we're either having now
(e.g.: what things should go into a dataset class), or plan to have at
some point (e.g.: how to support rotated, or user-defined grids).
To make it easier to have these discussions, I have created a 'csag'
branch where Chris and I will be putting some of this code over the next
few days. There's a lot that CSAG has developed that is complementary to
OCW, and I think its an excellent thing for the community they are
willing to share and participate. It would be great if anyone
interested/involved in the core OCW library development could take a
look at some point and bring questions/comments to the list.
Best,
Andrew.
[1] http://cip.csag.uct.ac.za
