Yesterday we had the super "moon event". Unfortunately Salvador was cloudy and the show was not as impressive as we expected. All the same, watching the sunset while the moon was rising by the Barra lighthouse was quite impressive. The super moon event inspired me to go back there next ...
If you have not checked Nikolay Koldunov's Earthpy blog by now stop reading this and click on my blog roll at the bottom right of the page. This post is basically "re-post" from his time-series part 2. I will to try reproduce his results using my two favorite tools ...
I am looking into the CF-standards for profile data to implement a netCDF save option for python-ctd.
Until now I was using a customized HDF5 file that, even though it was practical, the file was useless for software like iris. Iris obeys the CF-standards rules and rejects data that does ...
I added together two of my hobbies (running and python) into one python package: python-corrida is a small module based on a Fortran program originally designed by Paulo Polito. The module computes a spreadsheet for your training. It was based on a paper that, unfortunately, no one seems to find ...
There are few very modules for tidal analysis and prediction in python. In fact I can come up with just one name: tappy (Tidal Analysis Program in PYthon). Tappy has a command line interface and a syntax that is specific to its file format. In addition to that tappy is ...
This is a quick post to test Cartopy's shaded relief plots. I never had to plot something like this before, but recently a friend asked me how to this with python and I got interested.
After a quick Google search I found several blogs post about this. The best ...
In my last post about conda I forgot to
mentioned one important step! We must add my binstar channel to make
python-oceans available via conda. Also, I do not think I emphasized the
importance of creating virtual environments and how to create new ones. After
answering questions about this over ...
This week I was helping a friend to explore her data-set with some simple statistics and plots. So I decided to try seaborn out.
It is a really nice library that, together with pandas, becomes a powerful tool to take the first steps while exploring your data.
Here is a ...
If you never heard about the Climate and Forecast (CF)) Metadata Conventions you are probably living under a rock deep down the Mariana Trench.
Now, hearing about it is one thing, claiming to fully understand it is another. First, it is under constant change, second, it seems to be more ...