PyNcView

PyNcView is a cross-platform NetCDF viewer written in Python. It provides an easy-to-use graphical user interface to the creation of animations and publication-quality figures. It can open multiple NetCDF files side-by-side and can plot expressions containing NetCDF variables and mathematical operators.

Installation (Windows, Mac, Linux)

If you use Anaconda or Miniconda, the easiest way to install PyNcView is:

conda install -c conda-forge pyncview

Alternatively, PyNcView can be installed with pip:

pip install pyncview

In that case, you will also need to have PySide6, PyQt6, PyQt5, or PySide2 installed. PySide6 can be installed with pip install pyside6.

Use

To use PyNcView, start it from the command line with

pyncview

If you add the path to the NetCDF file you want to open, PyNcView will show that right away, for instance:

pyncview result.nc