Future steps and wish list

The next developments will adress, possibly in that order :

• adding graphic operators or features :

  • vectors on scalar fields

  • Hoevmoeller diagram

  • Taylor diagram

• interfacing the Drakkar community CDFtools

• managing masks (e.g. for ocean, tropics, lakes, oceanic basins …)

• handling geographical domains which are lists of locations

• chunking : automatically splitting e.g. the time dimension when processing a dataset (provided memory issues actually call for that)

• further cache management functions : - add a grading scheme on cache results : a value is set by the user, and used as a criterion to protect some data when cleaning the cache - use a hierarchy of cache locations, some being shared among various users

• figure pages sharing a single, common palette

The wish list, is the list of features wich priority is lesser; you may complement it by sending suggestions to climaf at meteo dot fr :

• use CliMAF as a data browser

• develop a fast remapping operator (provided there is some evidence that CDO reampping was sub-optimal)

• add to every result file some metadata regarding the basic data files used at the origin of all processing : creation date, version number if applicable

• a built-in arithmetics on datasets

• manage operators which provide multi-variable NetCDF files