Tutorial 01: Introduction to netCDF

Tutorial Worksheet:

• Introduction to netCDF

Presentation Slides:

• A Brief Introduction for the Tutorial Session
• Wakari Startup Guide
• Introduction to netCDF

Pyhton Scrips:

• Creating/Opening/Closing a netCDF file
• Creating Groups in a netCDF file
• Exploring Groups in a netCDF file
• Defining Dimensions in a netCDF file
• Variables in a netCDF file
• Defining Attributes in a netCDF file
• Writing data to and retrieving data from netCDF variables
• Reading data from a multi-file netCDF dataset
• Compression of netCDF variables

Python Text Editor / IDE:

• Wakari
• SublimeText
• PyDev
• PyCharm

Prescribed Python Textbooks:

• Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science 2nd Edition
• Python Essential Reference
• The Quick Python Book

Other Resources:

• Python
• HomeBrew (Package Manager for MAC)
• HDF5
• netCDF
• netCDF4-Python