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Awesome Open Atmospheric, Ocean, and Climate Science
Atmospheric, ocean, and climate science are awesome.
This is a curated list of open source software packages that make our lives as scientists, hackers and data wranglers easier or just more awesome.
This list is intended to be the fluid-earth counterpart of
awesome open geoscience,
although there is inevitably some overlap.
It is not just climate science! We use the word "climate" in the repo name just as shorthand for the fluid part of the earth.
Packages from atmospheric science, oceanography, climate science, and hydrology are all welcome.
In accordance with the awesome manifesto,
we add awesome repositories. We are wide open to contributions of course!
Don't hesitate to add your favorite packages by making a [pull request]
While packages are not technically specific to AOCH science, they are so essential for scientific workflows that we can't not include them
Pandas - Data structures and computational tools for working with tabular datasets
Xarray - Data structures and computational tools for multidimensional arrays, inspired by netCDF data model
Numpy - NumPy is a library for the Python programming language, adding support for large, multi-dimensional arrays and matrices, along with a large collection of high-level mathematical functions to operate on these arrays.
Matplotlib - Matplotlib is a comprehensive library for creating static, animated, and interactive visualizations in Python. Several other libraries, including many mentioned in the lists below, use Matplotlib by default under the hood for creating data visualizations.
aospy - Automated analysis and management of gridded climate data
Oocgcm - Analysis of large gridded geophysical datasets
Pangaea - xarray extension for gridded land surface & weather model output
xgcm - Extends the xarray data model to understand finite volume grid cells (common in General Circulation Models) and provides interpolation and difference operations for such grids
OpenClimateGIS - Geospatial manipulation, subsetting, computation, and translation of spatiotemporal climate data
climpred – xarray wrapper for analysis of ensemble forecast models for climate prediction
pyOWM - PyOWM is a client Python wrapper library for OpenWeatherMap (OWM) web APIs
SatPy - Read and manipulate meteorological remote sensing data and write it to various image and data file formats
Open Data Cube - Analysis toolkit for continental scale Earth Observation data from satellites
Earthdata Search - User interface for searching against the CMR (Common Metadata Repository). Supports data download, visualization, and subsetting in some cases.
Sentinelsat - Search and download data from the European Copernicus Sentinel satellites
geopandas - Spatial GIS operations on geometric types.
salem - Adds geolocalised subsetting, masking, and plotting operations to xarray's data structures via accessors
Regionmask - plotting and creation of masks of spatial regions
xshape - Tools for working with shapefiles, topographies, and polygons in xarray
Collocate - Collocate xarray trajectories in arbitrary physical dimensions
QGIS - GIS platform to visualize, manage, edit, analyse data, and compose printable maps
GeoPHP - The world's most popular geospatial library for PHP that works with WKT (including EWKT), WKB (including EWKB), GeoJSON, KML, GPX, GeoRSS and more
netCDF - NetCDF (Network Common Data Form) is a set of interfaces for array-oriented data access and a freely distributed collection of data access libraries for C, Fortran, C++, Java, Python, and other languages
HDF5 - HDF5 is a high-performance data management data storage format. HDF interfaces are available in C, Fortran, C++, Java, Python, and other languages
Do we list all the open source climate model codes? Are they awesome enough?
xarray-simlab - xarray extension for computer model simulations
Visualization
PyViz - A coordinated effort to make data visualization in Python easier to use, easier to learn, and more powerful. Sub-components include:
HoloViews - Library designed to make data analysis and visualization seamless and simple
GeoViews - Library that makes it easy to explore and visualize geographical, meteorological, and oceanographic datasets, such as those used in weather, climate, and remote sensing research
Datashader - graphics pipeline system for creating meaningful representations of large datasets quickly and flexibly
Panel - Create custom interactive web apps and dashboards by connecting user-defined widgets to plots, images, tables, or text
hvPlot - A high-level plotting API for the PyData ecosystem built on HoloViews
EarthSim - Tools for working with and visualizing environmental simulations
Cartopy - Easy cartographic (maps) data visualization.
Geoviews - Explore and visualize geographic data using HoloViews.
Data Repositories
Quantarctica - user-configurable QGIS basemap for Antarctica with high-quality, peer-reviewed, free and open Antarctic scientific data
UCI Machine Learning Repository – Popular hub for machine learning datasets, featuring "physical sciences" data on air quality, ozone level detection, greenhouse gas concentrations, aquatic toxicity, and more
National Data Buoy Center - The premier source of meteorological and oceanographic measurements for the marine environment.
Data structures and computational tools for working with tabular datasetsMatplotlib is a comprehensive library for creating static, animated, and interactive visualizations in Python. Several other libraries, including many mentioned in the lists below, use Matplotlib by default under the hood for creating data visualizations.
NOAA's Ocean wave model
An R interface to many NOAA data sources
GIS platform to visualize, manage, edit, analyse data, and compose printable maps
The world's most popular geospatial library for PHP that works with WKT (including EWKT), WKB (including EWKB), GeoJSON, KML, GPX, GeoRSS and more
