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About
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obs4MIPs.py, is a front end to an existing free software package, CMOR2 (Climate Model Output Rewriter), written by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and reads in a multitude of standard data formats, such as netcdf3, netcdf4, Grads control files, Matlab data files or a list of netcdf files, and converts the data into the CMIP5 data format to allow publication on the Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) data node.
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Examples
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Convert trmm data to CMIP5 format
obs4MIPs.py -r trmm.rc
Convert trmm data to CMIP5 format using excel spreadsheet
obs4MIPs.py -r ecmwf.rc
or
obs4MIPs.py -x ecmwf_table_obs4MIPs.xls
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Installation
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Installation and documentation is provided in the INSTALLATION file.