znicholls / cf-units

Units of measure as required by the Climate and Forecast (CF) metadata conventions.

cf-units

Units of measure as defined by the Climate and Forecast (CF) metadata conventions.

Table of contents

• Overview
  • Example
• Get in touch
• License and copyright

Overview

Units of measure as required by the Climate and Forecast (CF) metadata conventions.

Provision of a wrapper class to support Unidata/UCAR UDUNITS-2 library, and the cftime calendar functionality.

Documentation can be found at https://scitools.org.uk/cf-units/docs/latest/.

Example

>>> from cf_units import Unit
>>> km = Unit('kilometers')
>>> m = Unit('meters')
>>> m.convert(1500, km)
1.5

Get in touch

• Questions, ideas, general discussion or announcements of related projects use the Google Group.
• Report bugs, suggest features or view the source code on GitHub.

License and copyright

cf-units is licensed under GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPLv3).

Development occurs on GitHub at https://github.com/SciTools/cf-units, with a contributor's license agreement (CLA) that can be found at https://scitools.org.uk/governance.html.

(C) British Crown Copyright, Met Office