Iris
A powerful, format-agnostic, community-driven Python package for analyzing and visualizing Earth science data.
https://github.com/SciTools/iris
Category: Climate Change
Sub Category: Climate Data Processing and Analysis
Keywords
data-analysis earth-science grib iris meteorology netcdf oceanography python spaceweather visualisation
Keywords from Contributors
spatial-data-analysis projections geometry cartopy observation climate conda atmospheric-science qt deprecated
Last synced: about 14 hours ago
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A powerful, format-agnostic, and community-driven Python package for analysing and visualising Earth science data
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/SciTools/iris
- Owner: SciTools
- License: bsd-3-clause
- Created: 2012-08-06T10:09:14.000Z (about 13 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-10-28T12:02:13.000Z (6 days ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-10-28T20:42:18.619Z (6 days ago)
- Topics: data-analysis, earth-science, grib, iris, meteorology, netcdf, oceanography, python, spaceweather, visualisation
- Language: Python
- Homepage: https://scitools-iris.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
- Size: 126 MB
- Stars: 692
- Watchers: 37
- Forks: 297
- Open Issues: 221
- Releases: 82
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGES
- Contributing: .github/CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE
- Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- Citation: CITATION.cff
README.md
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Graphics and Lead Scientist: Ed Hawkins, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading.
Data: Berkeley Earth, NOAA, UK Met Office, MeteoSwiss, DWD, SMHI, UoR, Meteo France & ZAMG.
Citation (CITATION.cff)
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title: "Iris"
keywords:
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- "data-analysis"
- "earth-science"
- "grib"
- "netcdf"
- "meteorology"
- "oceanography"
- "space-weather"
- "ugrid"
- "visualisation"
authors:
- name: "Iris contributors"
abstract: "A powerful, format-agnostic, and community-driven Python package for analysing and visualising Earth science data"
license: "BSD-3-Clause"
license-url: "https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause.html"
doi: "10.5281/zenodo.595182"
url: "http://scitools.org.uk/"
repository-code: "https://github.com/SciTools/iris"
type: "software"
Owner metadata
- Name: SciTools
- Login: SciTools
- Email: scitools.pub@gmail.com
- Kind: organization
- Description: SciTools is a collaborative effort to produce powerful Python-based open-source tools for Earth scientists
- Website: https://scitools.org.uk/
- Location: United Kingdom
- Twitter:
- Company:
- Icon url: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1391487?v=4
- Repositories: 35
- Last ynced at: 2024-03-26T16:10:48.277Z
- Profile URL: https://github.com/SciTools
GitHub Events
Total
- Create event: 129
- Commit comment event: 1
- Release event: 10
- Issues event: 334
- Watch event: 47
- Delete event: 111
- Issue comment event: 1041
- Push event: 273
- Pull request event: 553
- Pull request review comment event: 564
- Pull request review event: 805
- Fork event: 14
Last Year
- Create event: 120
- Commit comment event: 1
- Release event: 9
- Issues event: 314
- Watch event: 45
- Delete event: 103
- Issue comment event: 977
- Push event: 250
- Pull request event: 506
- Pull request review event: 727
- Pull request review comment event: 501
- Fork event: 14
Committers metadata
Last synced: 5 days ago
Total Commits: 4,788
Total Committers: 110
Avg Commits per committer: 43.527
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.882
Commits in past year: 315
Committers in past year: 19
Avg Commits per committer in past year: 16.579
Development Distribution Score (DDS) in past year: 0.8
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| Bill Little | b****e@g****m | 564 |
| Patrick Peglar | p****r@m****k | 509 |
| Richard Hattersley | r****y@g****m | 407 |
| Peter Killick | p****k@m****k | 279 |
| Ed Campbell | d****l@g****m | 262 |
| Mark Hedley | m****h@s****k | 232 |
| Martin Yeo | 4****s | 232 |
| Phil Elson | p****b@g****m | 191 |
| Elliott Sales de Andrade | q****t@g****m | 176 |
| bblay | b****y@g****m | 161 |
| Laura Dreyer | l****r@m****k | 149 |
| dependabot[bot] | 4****] | 144 |
| Ruth Comer | 1****r | 142 |
| Carwyn Pelley | c****b@g****m | 138 |
| tkknight | 2****t | 122 |
| pre-commit-ci[bot] | 6****] | 109 |
| Andrew Dawson | a****n@a****g | 97 |
| scitools-ci[bot] | 1****] | 86 |
| Daniel Kirkham | d****m@m****k | 80 |
| Corinne Bosley | c****y@m****k | 72 |
| stephenworsley | 4****y | 71 |
| Elias | 1****O | 63 |
| Will Benfold | 6****d | 58 |
| github-actions[bot] | 4****] | 44 |
| Bouwe Andela | b****a@e****l | 32 |
| Henry Wright | 8****t | 25 |
| Karina Williams | k****s@m****k | 22 |
| ocefpaf | o****f@g****m | 21 |
| Carroll, Luke | l****l@m****k | 20 |
| tv3141 | t****1 | 17 |
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Committer domains:
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- smhi.se: 2
- scitools.org.uk: 1
- acm.org: 1
- esciencecenter.nl: 1
- climate.com: 1
- uni-graz.at: 1
- climate-energy-college.org: 1
- eld245.desktop.frd.metoffice.com: 1
- hilboll.de: 1
- physics.ox.ac.uk: 1
- niwa.co.nz: 1
- columbia.edu: 1
- github.com: 1
- csiro.au: 1
- bom.gov.au: 1
- ed.ac.uk: 1
- eld519.desktop.frd.metoffice.com: 1
- lgge162.lab.lan: 1
- canada.ca: 1
- bsc.es: 1
- chriscalloway.org: 1
- openrefactory.com: 1
- gitter.im: 1
- stfc.ac.uk: 1
Issue and Pull Request metadata
Last synced: 3 days ago
Total issues: 2,058
Total pull requests: 4,951
Average time to close issues: about 1 year
Average time to close pull requests: 30 days
Total issue authors: 224
Total pull request authors: 123
Average comments per issue: 3.34
Average comments per pull request: 3.47
Merged pull request: 3,923
Bot issues: 235
Bot pull requests: 594
Past year issues: 180
Past year pull requests: 506
Past year average time to close issues: 17 days
Past year average time to close pull requests: 6 days
Past year issue authors: 27
Past year pull request authors: 21
Past year average comments per issue: 0.81
Past year average comments per pull request: 1.92
Past year merged pull request: 353
Past year bot issues: 88
Past year bot pull requests: 225
Top Issue Authors
- pp-mo (278)
- github-actions[bot] (212)
- trexfeathers (120)
- bjlittle (114)
- bblay (90)
- lbdreyer (88)
- rcomer (73)
- cpelley (71)
- rhattersley (68)
- pelson (58)
- stephenworsley (40)
- DPeterK (37)
- valeriupredoi (31)
- corinnebosley (28)
- schlunma (28)
Top Pull Request Authors
- pp-mo (671)
- bjlittle (598)
- trexfeathers (356)
- rhattersley (273)
- dependabot[bot] (222)
- marqh (191)
- DPeterK (188)
- pelson (162)
- pre-commit-ci[bot] (161)
- scitools-ci[bot] (160)
- tkknight (155)
- rcomer (154)
- lbdreyer (149)
- esc24 (148)
- cpelley (143)
Top Issue Labels
- Type: Bug (362)
- Bot (233)
- Type: Documentation (217)
- Type: Performance (217)
- Stale (209)
- Type: Enhancement (155)
- Release: Minor (79)
- Type: Infrastructure (74)
- Experience: High (70)
- Experience: Low (55)
- Feature: ESMValTool (51)
- Good First Issue (42)
- Release: Patch (38)
- Feature: Merge/Concatenate (37)
- Feature: NetCDF + CF-conventions (36)
- Release: Major (34)
- Peloton 🚴♂️ (34)
- Feature: UGRID (34)
- Status: Decision Required (32)
- Dragon 🐉 (27)
- Type: Question (27)
- Type: Testing (27)
- Experience: Medium (13)
- Type: Tech Debt (10)
- Status: Needs Info (10)
- Type: Feature Branch (9)
- Feature: ASV (9)
- Status: Work in Progress (8)
- Status: Duplicate (8)
- Dragon Sub-Task 🦎 (7)
Top Pull Request Labels
- Bot (399)
- Type: Documentation (308)
- benchmark_this (245)
- New: Pull Request (229)
- Type: Infrastructure (215)
- Type: Enhancement (141)
- Release: Minor (126)
- Type: Feature Branch (123)
- Type: Testing (113)
- Type: Bug (106)
- Feature: pytest (96)
- Type: Performance (67)
- Release: Patch (66)
- Feature: UGRID (61)
- Status: Duplicate (52)
- Release: Major (49)
- Type: Merge Back (34)
- Status: Work in Progress (33)
- Experience: Low (27)
- Experience: High (23)
- Status: Stalled (22)
- Feature: ESMValTool (21)
- Peloton 🚴♂️ (20)
- Status: Decision Required (18)
- Blocked: CLA needed (17)
- Feature: NetCDF + CF-conventions (15)
- Experience: Medium (12)
- Feature: Arithmetic (9)
- Feature: ASV (8)
- Type: Tech Debt (8)
Package metadata
- Total packages: 2
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Total downloads:
- pypi: 18,223 last-month
- Total docker downloads: 491
- Total dependent packages: 13 (may contain duplicates)
- Total dependent repositories: 24 (may contain duplicates)
- Total versions: 110
- Total maintainers: 10
pypi.org: scitools-iris
A powerful, format-agnostic, community-driven Python package for analysing and visualising Earth science data
- Homepage:
- Documentation: https://scitools-iris.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
- Licenses: bsd-3-clause
- Latest release: 3.13.1 (published 2 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-10-30T21:34:42.281Z (4 days ago)
- Versions: 47
- Dependent Packages: 13
- Dependent Repositories: 24
- Downloads: 18,223 Last month
- Docker Downloads: 491
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Rankings:
- Dependent packages count: 0.938%
- Docker downloads count: 2.198%
- Stargazers count: 2.631%
- Average: 2.754%
- Dependent repos count: 2.983%
- Forks count: 3.179%
- Downloads: 4.597%
- Maintainers (10)
proxy.golang.org: github.com/scitools/iris
- Homepage:
- Documentation: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/scitools/iris#section-documentation
- Licenses: bsd-3-clause
- Latest release: v3.13.1+incompatible (published 2 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-10-30T21:34:41.262Z (4 days ago)
- Versions: 63
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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Rankings:
- Dependent packages count: 6.999%
- Average: 8.173%
- Dependent repos count: 9.346%
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