Pratiman Patel

Pratiman Patel

13 Posts

Hi, I am Pratiman Patel, a PhD graduate from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, and currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the National University of Singapore, Singapore. My research interest is in urban climate, hydrology and remote sensing and geographic information system.

Colormaps

Description Colormaps is a library of collection of colormaps or color palettes for Python. It’s written in Python with matplotlib and numpy as dependencies....

SkewT Plot from WRF outputs

WRF Simple Sounding Using MetPy as straightforward as possible to make a Skew-T LogP plot for WRF out file. Required Libraries WRF-Python NetCDF4 M...

Building Your Color Palette

An excellent and interesting blog related to the building a new colour palette, which I find challenging to work. Use the following link: https://refactoring...

Extracting Regions from IMD datasets using Python

This is just for my understanding. I tend to forget things. Might be useful to others as well. # Importing stuff import imdlib as imd import geopandas from ...

Getting started with Python and IMDLIB

This is intended for those who have never used python or just starting to work in python. Here are the steps which will help them with getting started with I...

India Meteorological Department (IMD) grided data to GeoTIFF

Update [27 Feb 2021] For latest documentation, please visit https://imdlib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Now, you can convert the IMD dataset to GeoTIFF using d...

How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations?

Go to this site: How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations?!

Installing WRF from scratch in an HPC using Intel Compilers

The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model is a mesoscale numerical weather prediction system utilized worldwide for operational forecasts and research...

NetCDF to GeoTIFF using Python

A simple and elegant method to convert NetCDF to GeoTIFF using python. Python Script import xarray as xr import rioxarray as rio #Open the NetCDF #Download...

WRF surface plots using Python

Here is an example of generating a surface plot from WRF output file. I find this method to be more elegent. Python Script import wrf from netCDF4 import Da...

Installing WRF 4.2.1 on Ubuntu LTS 20.04

The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model is a mesoscale numerical weather prediction system utilized worldwide for operational forecasts and research...

Panel or Facet plots from NetCDF4

Usually, working with met data, you have to plot multiple figures. Here, we plot 6 plots in the same figure including plot numbers. First of all load your d...

Plotting GeoTIFF in Python

Usually, working with geographic data, you have to use GIS software. For plotting multiple plots with the same quality might be cumbersome. Hence, some peopl...