read_netcdf.py

class pycovjson.read_netcdf.NetCDFReader(dataset_path)

convert_time(t_variable)

Formats time objects to CovJSON compliant strings.

Parameters:t_variable – Time Variable Returns:list of formatted datetime strings

extract_var_data(var_names)

Returns dictionary containing the values in each variable specified in the variable list.

Parameters:var_names (String) –

:return variable_dict - Dictionary containing key-val pairs

get_description(variable)

Parameters:variable – input variable Returns:long_name

get_dimensions(variable)

Return dimension of specified variable.

Parameters:variable – Input variable Returns:Tuple - Array dimension of specified variable

get_metadata(variable)

Returns metadata for a specified variable.

Parameters:variable – Name of specified Returns:dset[variable]

get_name(variable)

Parameters:variable – input variable Returns:name - string

get_shape(variable)

Get shape of specifed variable, as list :param variable: String specifying variable name :return: shape_list - List containing shape of specified variable

get_std_name(variable)

Return standard name of variable.

Parameters:variable – input variable Returns:standard_name

get_type(variable)

Parameters:

• dset – NetCDF dataset object
• variable – Specified

Returns:

var_type with digits stripped

get_units(variable)

Return units of specified variable. :param variable: :return: units

get_values(variable)

Parameters:variable – Returns:variable values as ndarray

get_var_group(variable)

Return group which specified variable belongs to.

Parameters:variable – Returns:group as string

:type string

is_x(var)

Detect whether or not specified variable is an x coord :param var: :return: Boolean value

is_y(var)

Detect whether or not specified variable is a y coord :param var: :return: Boolean value