iris.experimental.ugrid.save

Extensions to Iris’ NetCDF saving to allow Mesh saving in UGRID format.

Eventual destination: iris.fileformats.netcdf (plan to split that module into load and save in future).

In this module:

• save_mesh

iris.experimental.ugrid.save.save_mesh(mesh, filename, netcdf_format='NETCDF4')

Save mesh(es) to a netCDF file.

Args:

• mesh (iris.experimental.ugrid.Mesh or iterable):

  mesh(es) to save.

• filename (string):

  Name of the netCDF file to create.

Kwargs:

• netcdf_format (string):

  Underlying netCDF file format, one of ‘NETCDF4’, ‘NETCDF4_CLASSIC’, ‘NETCDF3_CLASSIC’ or ‘NETCDF3_64BIT’. Default is ‘NETCDF4’ format.