Iris user guide

How to use the user guide

If you are reading this user guide for the first time it is strongly recommended that you read the user guide fully before experimenting with your own data files.

Much of the content has supplementary links to the reference documentation; you will not need to follow these links in order to understand the guide but they may serve as a useful reference for future exploration.

Since later pages depend on earlier ones, try reading this user guide sequentially using the next and previous links.

User guide table of contents

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Iris data structures
  • 1.2. Cubes in practice
• 2. Loading Iris cubes
  • 2.1. Loading multiple files
  • 2.2. Constrained loading
  • 2.3. Strict loading
• 3. Saving Iris cubes
  • 3.1. Controlling the save process
  • 3.2. Customising the save process
  • 3.3. Bespoke Saver
• 4. Navigating a cube
  • 4.1. Cube string representations
  • 4.2. Working with cubes
  • 4.3. Accessing coordinates on the cube
  • 4.4. Adding metadata to a cube
  • 4.5. Adding and removing metadata to the cube at load time
• 5. Subsetting a Cube
  • 5.1. Cube extraction
  • 5.2. Cube iteration
  • 5.3. Cube indexing
• 6. Plotting a cube
  • 6.1. Matplotlib’s pyplot basics
  • 6.2. Iris cube plotting
  • 6.3. Brewer colour palettes
• 7. Cube interpolation and regridding
  • 7.1. Interpolation
  • 7.2. Regridding
• 8. Merge and Concatenate
  • 8.1. Merge
  • 8.2. Concatenate
  • 8.3. Common issues with merge and concatenate
• 9. Cube statistics
  • 9.1. Collapsing entire data dimensions
  • 9.2. Partially reducing data dimensions
• 10. Basic cube mathematics
  • 10.1. Calculating the difference between two cubes
  • 10.2. Calculating a cube anomaly
  • 10.3. Combining multiple phenomena to form a new one
• 11. Citing Iris
  • 11.1. BibTeX entry
  • 11.2. Downloaded Software
  • 11.3. Checked out Software
• 12. Code Maintenance
  • 12.1. Stability and Change
  • 12.2. Goals of Change Management
• 13. End of the user guide
  • 13.1. Iris gallery