Re: [Matplotlib-users] Sources and tools for meteo data?

2012-07-24 Thread Vladan Divljak
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 4:51 AM, Jeff Whitaker wrote: > Vladan: You can access current NOAA forecasts (atmosphere and ocean) via > opendap from http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov. The netcdf4-python package ( > http://netcdf4-python.**googlecode.com) > can connect

[Matplotlib-users] Fwd: Sources and tools for meteo data?

2012-07-24 Thread Vladan Divljak
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 4:38 AM, Patrick Marsh wrote: > I'm finishing up my PhD in Meteorology. Although I don't use it explicitly > use pydap for my research, I do use it to download meteorological data from > various dap servers. > OK, thanks I'm just browsing datasets at opendap wiki, which I

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Sources and tools for meteo data?

2012-07-24 Thread Vladan Divljak
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Eric Firing wrote: > > It sounds like maybe you missed http://pydap.org. > I have it :) I installed it yesterday. On a first sight, it seemed to me like a tool for users interested in making local dap server (I have even considered that, until I run to IDV), but m

[Matplotlib-users] Sources and tools for meteo data?

2012-07-24 Thread Vladan Divljak
Hi, I'm a physics student, and got interested in retrieving meteorological data (through Internet) I spent good couple of days to just make a picture of file formats providing this data, sources and tools for reading it, and then give up discouridged by ECMWF and finally EUMETSAT portals. I have a