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Gridpp a is post-processing tool for gridded weather forecasts. It consists of a library of commonly-used methods and a command-line tool that applies these methods to forecast fields in NetCDF files.
For more information checkout https://github.com/metno/gridpp/wiki.
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Post-processing software for gridded weather forecasts
We found that gridpp demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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