Blogs

Python Resources

Pratiman Patel | 26 March 2023
3 min read.

Description Some of the intersting Python libraries that may be useful in future.

read more

Convert spatial data to WRF Pre-Processing System (WPS)

Pratiman Patel | 20 April 2022
2 min read.

Description Let’s try to convert a GeoTIFF to WRF Pre-Processing System (WPS).

read more

Colormaps

Pratiman Patel | 10 August 2021
2 min read.

Description Colormaps is a library of collection of colormaps or color palettes for Python. It’s written in Python with matplotlib and numpy as dependencies. You can use Colormaps to customize matplotlib plots.

read more

SkewT Plot from WRF outputs

Pratiman Patel | 05 August 2021
3 min read.

WRF Simple Sounding

read more

Building Your Color Palette

Pratiman Patel | 04 December 2020
1 min read.

An excellent and interesting blog related to the building a new colour palette, which I find challenging to work. Use the following link: https://refactoringui.com/previews/building-your-color-palette/

read more

Extracting Regions from IMD datasets using Python

Pratiman Patel | 29 October 2020
1 min read.

This is just for my understanding. I tend to forget things. Might be useful to others as well.

read more

Getting started with Python and IMDLIB

Pratiman Patel | 07 October 2020
2 min read.

This is intended for those who have never used python or just starting to work in python. Here are the steps which will help them with getting started with IMDLIB and Python.

read more

India Meteorological Department (IMD) grided data to GeoTIFF

Saswata Nandi and Pratiman Patel | 06 October 2020
2 min read.

Update [27 Feb 2021] For latest documentation, please visit https://imdlib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

read more

Update [27 Feb 2021] For latest documentation, please visit https://imdlib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

read more

How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations?

Pratiman | 05 September 2020
1 min read.

Go to this site: How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations?!

read more

Installing WRF from scratch in an HPC using Intel Compilers

Pratiman | 01 September 2020
6 min read.

The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model is a mesoscale numerical weather prediction system utilized worldwide for operational forecasts and research purposes.

read more

NetCDF to GeoTIFF using Python

Pratiman | 01 August 2020
2 min read.

A simple and elegant method to convert NetCDF to GeoTIFF using python.

read more

WRF surface plots using Python

Pratiman | 29 July 2020
2 min read.

Here is an example of generating a surface plot from WRF output file. I find this method to be more elegent.

read more

Installing WRF 4.2.1 on Ubuntu LTS 20.04

Pratiman | 28 July 2020
6 min read.

The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model is a mesoscale numerical weather prediction system utilized worldwide for operational forecasts and research purposes.

read more

Panel or Facet plots from NetCDF4

Pratiman | 09 July 2020
3 min read.

Usually, working with met data, you have to plot multiple figures. Here, we plot 6 plots in the same figure including plot numbers.

read more

Plotting GeoTIFF in Python

Pratiman | 30 June 2020
3 min read.

Usually, working with geographic data, you have to use GIS software. For plotting multiple plots with the same quality might be cumbersome. Hence, some people choose to automate the process; I was also struggling to do the same. So here is a simple example of plotting a GeoTIFF file.

read more