Useful Python Tools for Atmospheric Science

This is a list of useful and/or new Python tools that the Unidata Python Team and community are keeping an eye on or using.

Unidata Projects

MetPy - General meteorological toolkit
siphon - Remote data access
netCDF4-python - netCDF4 API

Meteorology Specific

PyART - Python ARM Radar Toolkit

Data Wrangling

pandas - Easy tabular data manipulation
xarray - Gridded/labeled multidimensional data

Plotting

matplotlib - Beautiful publication quality graphics
Bokeh - Interactive web graphics
Cartopy - Plotting maps

Core Python/Interface

iPython - Interactive Python shell
Jupyter - Notebooks and the new Jupyter Lab
pathlib - Easy file path manipulation

Education

nbgrader - An automatic homework grader for notebooks

Performance

Numba - JIT compiler
Dask - Distributed computing