User Documentation

Detailed explanations, beyond the basic tutorial-style introductions (for which, see Getting Started)

• Purpose and Principles of NcData
  • Purpose
  • Design Principles
• Core Data Objects
  • Data Classes
  • Correctness and Consistency
  • Components, Containers and Names
  • NcData and NcVariable “.attributes” and “.avals”
  • Core Object Constructors
  • Relationship to File Storage
• Common Operations
  • Extract and Remove
  • Insert / Add
  • Rename
  • Copying
  • Equality Testing
  • Object Creation
• Utilities and Conveniences
  • Rename Dimensions
  • Dataset Equality Testing
  • Sub-indexing
  • Consistency Checking
  • Data Copying
• General Topics
  • Validity Checking
  • Data Types (dtypes)
  • Character and String Data
  • Thread Safety
• How-To Questions
  • Access a variable, dimension, attribute or group
  • Add a variable, dimension, attribute or group
  • Remove a variable, dimension, attribute or group
  • Rename a variable, attribute or group
  • Rename a dimension
  • Read an attribute value
  • Change an attribute value
  • Create an attribute
  • Create a variable
  • Read or write variable data
  • Make a copy of data
  • Extract a subsection by indexing
  • Read data from a NetCDF file
  • Control chunking in a netCDF read
  • Save data to a new file
  • Read from or write to Iris cubes
  • Read from or write to Xarray datasets
  • Convert data directly from Iris to Xarray, or vice versa
  • Combine data from different input files into one output
  • Create a brand-new dataset
  • Remove or rewrite specific attributes
  • Save selected variables to a new file
  • Adjust file content before loading into Iris/Xarray
  • Adjust Iris/Xarray save output before writing to a file
  • Load a file containing variable-width string variables