PyNIO Tutorial / SEA 2015
Dave Brown, Mary Haley, Wei Huang, Rick Brownrigg
April 16, 2015
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
FL2-1022 Large Auditorium
- Description
- Presentations (combined into one PDF file)
- Sample scripts
- Sample data files
- Installing the required software on your laptop
- Running PyNIO on yellowstone
- Prerequisites
Description
This two hour tutorial will introduce and demo the use of PyNIO for reading and writing geoscientific data in various formats (NetCDF 3/4, GRIB 1/2, HDF-EOS2/5, HDF4/5, Shapefile). We may also employ NumPy, matplotlib, and PyNGL to demonstrate how to visualize various grids and meshes.
Attendees will be given the opportunity to run the tutorial scripts on their own laptops, using example datasets. We'll provide example scripts and data files via the web and/or memory sticks.
The tutorial assumes no advanced knowledge of these data formats, but interested attendees are encouraged to bring their own geophysical datasets (in any of the above mentioned formats) for hands-on exploration.
Installation instructions
Here's the "InstallPyNXX.pdf" file that many of you requested.
If you have installation issues, send email to Mary Haley, haley@ucar.edu.
Attendees who want to participate in the tutorial should have Python 2.6.9 or later (not 3.0) installed on their system, and NumPy 1.7 or later. We highly recommend Python 2.7.9 and NumPy 1.9.2. We can't guarantee that PyNIO will work with older versions of Python or NumPy.
Instructions for Mac and Linux laptops
For users with Mac and Linux laptops, we recommend that you install Anaconda. This will give you Python 2.7.9, NumPy 1.9.2, IPython Notebook and Spyder. (Don't choose the Python 3.4 download).
You can download one of our precompiled PyNIO binaries for various Mac and Linux systems.
Once you have the PyNIO-1.5.0-beta.xxxx.tar.gz and/or PyNGL-1.5.0-beta.xxxx.tar.gz and/or files, you either need to extract the files it in your standard Python "site-packages" directory, or extract the files wherever you want and then set PYTHONPATH to point to the location. We suggest creating a directory specifically for extracting the files. For example:
mkdir /usr/home/haley/pynio_beta_test cd /usr/home/haley/pynio_beta_test tar -zxf /path/to/PyNIO-1.5.0-beta.xxxx.tar.gz tar -zxf /path/to/PyNGL-1.5.0-beta.xxxx.tar.gz export PYTHONPATH=/usr/home/haley/pynio_beta_test/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PyNIO:/usr/home/haley/pynio_beta_test/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PyNGL
Instructions for Windows laptops
For users with Windows laptops, we recommend installing VirtualBox on your system:
- Go to https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
- Click on "VirtualBox for Windows hosts" (x86/amd64)
- Run the ".exe" file that gets downloaded and accept all the defaults if possible.
- If this is successful, the VirtualBox program should be started for you.
Download these two files from the precompiled binaries page:
PyNIO-1.5.0-beta.Linux-RHEL6.4-x86_64-py279-numpy192-gnu472.tar.gzand then use the installation instructions under the "Linux and Mac" section above for extracting the files and setting PYTHONPATH.
PyNGL-1.5.0-beta.Linux-RHEL6.4-x86_64-py279-numpy192-gnu472.tar.gz
Running PyNIO on yellowstone
To get the proper python environment loaded to run the beta versions of PyNIO and PyNGL:
module load gnu/4.8.2 module load python all-python-libs export PYTHONPATH=/glade/u/ncldev/users/sea2015/PyNIO:/glade/u/ncldev/users/sea2015/PyNGL:$PYTHONPATH
or
module load gnu/4.8.2 module load python all-python-libs setenv PYTHONPATH /glade/u/ncldev/users/sea2015/PyNIO:/glade/u/ncldev/users/sea2015/PyNGL:$PYTHONPATH
To run these scripts on yellowstone, you can copy the data and scripts from:
/glade/u/ncldev/users/sea2015/scripts /glade/u/ncldev/users/sea2015/data
Prerequisites
Attendees must have skill using Python, and some familiarity with NumPy. No climate sciences knowledge is assumed. Familiarity with NetCDF and/or other geoscientific data formats is helpful, but not required.