I have a model that calculates the tidal stress tensor (a symmetric 2x2
matrix) on the surface of an icy satellite. It's just two orthogonal
vector fields on the surface of the body. I want to be able to make
pretty plots of the model output, including:
* The magnitude of either one of the fields at any point
* The magnitude and orientation of either or both fields, as a grid of
little arrows, whose colors correspond to whether the value is positive
or negative.
* Animations of time (or other) series.
I also want to be able to save the model output in a format that other
people can read and manipulate. Ideally, model run results could also
be hosted on a web server, and other people could view them remotely.
I just re-wrote the model in pure Python (it had been written in C
previously), and I've been using my own hacked together ASCII file
format and a Perl script that builds GMT plots based on them to make
figures and visualizations up until now... but I'm sick of that and want
something more flexible.
This all seems to suggest to me, after a little poking around, that the
NetCDF file format would be good. I've managed to get SciPy and
Matplotlib and Basemap installed and apparently working together
happily... but I can't seem to find any "official" module within that
structure for writing NetCDF files. There are references to the old
Scientific.IO.NetCDF package, and I found something that had been
hanging around in the scipy.sandbox area... but which isn't there any
more. There's quite a list of Python interfaces to NetCDF on the
Unidata website... but they don't make any recommendations as to which
is "best".
If I'm going to be working within Matplotlib and Basemap and SciPy, does
anyone have a good recommendation for which NetCDF Python package to
use? Or issues I should consider?
Thanks for any insight,
Zane
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