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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 cartopy geometry projections deprecated climate conda obsolete weather atmospheric-science

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A powerful, format-agnostic, and community-driven Python package for analysing and visualising Earth science data

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.

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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"

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Last synced: 2 days ago

Total Commits: 5,021
Total Committers: 127
Avg Commits per committer: 39.535
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.885

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Avg Commits per committer in past year: 8.76
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Last synced: 2 days ago

Total issues: 2,168
Total pull requests: 5,208
Average time to close issues: about 1 year
Average time to close pull requests: 29 days
Total issue authors: 228
Total pull request authors: 145
Average comments per issue: 3.28
Average comments per pull request: 3.41
Merged pull request: 4,118
Bot issues: 264
Bot pull requests: 639

Past year issues: 104
Past year pull requests: 232
Past year average time to close issues: 2 months
Past year average time to close pull requests: 12 days
Past year issue authors: 17
Past year pull request authors: 34
Past year average comments per issue: 0.9
Past year average comments per pull request: 2.34
Past year merged pull request: 171
Past year bot issues: 28
Past year bot pull requests: 38

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Package metadata

pypi.org: scitools-iris

A powerful, format-agnostic, community-driven Python package for analysing and visualising Earth science data

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

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  • Last Synced: 2026-11-08T08:36:08.149Z (2 days ago)
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proxy.golang.org: github.com/scitools/iris

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guix: python-scitools-iris

Earth science data analysing and visualising library

  • Homepage: https://github.com/SciTools/iris
  • Documentation: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/geo.scm#n2743
  • Licenses: lgpl3+
  • Latest release: 3.14.1 (published 8 months ago)
  • Last Synced: 2026-04-07T03:01:32.292Z (7 months ago)
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    • Average: 100%

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