xarray Python library is great for analysing multi-dimensional arrays of data with labelled dimensions, which is a common situation in geosciences.

According to the docs, xarray has two core data structures. Both are fundamentally N-dimensional:

• DataArray is our implementation of a labeled, N-dimensional array. It is an N-D generalization of …

This post is essentially a Python script that we discussed at today's meeting. It is written in a form of Jupyter Notebook and can be downloaded as a whole (the link at the end).

The script below is a simple example on how you can utulise matplotlib and cartopy awesomeness …