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 conda climate deprecated qt interpolation

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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 (over 12 years ago)
Default Branch: main
Last Pushed: 2025-04-26T00:10:12.000Z (5 days ago)
Last Synced: 2025-04-27T15:48:38.394Z (3 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: 125 MB
Stars: 645
Watchers: 42
Forks: 292
Open Issues: 217
Releases: 76
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)

cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If Iris played an important part in your research then please add us to your reference list by using the references below."
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
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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

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Issues event: 159
Watch event: 18
Delete event: 69
Issue comment event: 626
Push event: 148
Pull request event: 301
Pull request review comment event: 222
Pull request review event: 382
Fork event: 9

Last Year

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Release event: 5
Issues event: 159
Watch event: 18
Delete event: 69
Issue comment event: 626
Push event: 148
Pull request event: 301
Pull request review comment event: 222
Pull request review event: 382
Fork event: 9

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Last synced: 7 days ago

Total Commits: 4,589
Total Committers: 108
Avg Commits per committer: 42.491
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.88

Commits in past year: 250
Committers in past year: 18
Avg Commits per committer in past year: 13.889
Development Distribution Score (DDS) in past year: 0.768

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Last synced: 1 day ago

Total issues: 2,026
Total pull requests: 4,388
Average time to close issues: about 1 year
Average time to close pull requests: about 1 month
Total issue authors: 221
Total pull request authors: 121
Average comments per issue: 3.47
Average comments per pull request: 3.69
Merged pull request: 3,549
Bot issues: 196
Bot pull requests: 378

Past year issues: 220
Past year pull requests: 338
Past year average time to close issues: about 1 month
Past year average time to close pull requests: 12 days
Past year issue authors: 26
Past year pull request authors: 22
Past year average comments per issue: 1.37
Past year average comments per pull request: 2.53
Past year merged pull request: 269
Past year bot issues: 82
Past year bot pull requests: 138

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Package metadata

Total packages: 2
Total downloads:
- pypi: 4,999 last-month
Total docker downloads: 491
Total dependent packages: 13 (may contain duplicates)
Total dependent repositories: 24 (may contain duplicates)
Total versions: 100
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: 3.12.1 (published about 8 hours ago)
Last Synced: 2025-04-30T16:46:22.130Z (about 8 hours ago)
Versions: 42
Dependent Packages: 13
Dependent Repositories: 24
Downloads: 4,999 Last month
Docker Downloads: 491
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)
- Bill.Little
- dkillick
- pelson
- QuLogic
- lbdreyer
- ppmo
- martin.yeo
- ESadek-MO
- stephen.worsley
- HGWright

proxy.golang.org: github.com/scitools/iris

Homepage:
Documentation: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/scitools/iris#section-documentation
Licenses: lgpl-3.0
Latest release: v3.12.0+incompatible (published about 1 month ago)
Last Synced: 2025-04-29T16:34:35.200Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 58
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
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- Average: 8.173%
- Dependent repos count: 9.346%

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