Meteorology in Debian Science

The Sentinel page gathers meteorology packages.

Meteorology tools in Debian / currently being packaged

Data Manipulation

Libraries

Analysis and Visualization

Software that could be included in Debian

* MCT Model Coupling Toolkit. Used by ESMF and now OASIS3-MCT

Issues:

SZIP Compression

SZIP is a compression library for HDF and other scientific data. HDF which we ship, can be built against it, but SZIP is patented (US only?) and is free for non-commercial use (ie. not DFSG-free). It is unlikely to change and we could not ship it (can it be shipped in non-free ?). However it would be desirable for HDF on Debian to be able to use it if present: hence a patch could be written to dynamically open it if present. The patent is owned by NASA who have agreed not to enforce it; it expires in a year or so. A GNU GPL'd version of SZIP is being written so that SZIP can be included in WMO standards.

NCL

NCL Depends on a large number of packages, many in Debian. The required ones that could cause issues include:

GRIB2

EUMETNET and member consortia have agreed that GRIB2 will be the interchange format between their models. Ensure that tools within Debian Met. work with GRIB2.

Done._

Python3 Transition

As part of the general transition in Debian/Ubuntu to Python3, it is my release goal for Jessie to get all the met. packages working with Python3.

See DebianScienceMetPython3 to see progress.

GSHHS : Global Self-consistent Hierarchical High-resolution Shorelines

Several packages include their own copies of GSHHS maps and code. These should be merged, and one set of maps provided. DebianScienceGshhsMaps describes the work in progress.