ESM Tools

For our complete documentation, please check https://esm-tools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html.

Before you continue

You will need python 3 (possibly version 3.6 or newer), a version of git that is not ancient (everything newer than 2.10 should be good), and up-to-date pip (pip install -U pip) to install the esm_tools. That means that on the supported machines, you could for example use the following settings:

ollie.awi.de:

$ module load git
$ module load python3

mistral.dkrz.de:

$ module load git
$ module load anaconda3

glogin.hlrn.de / blogin.hlrn.de:

$ module load git
$ module load anaconda3

juwels.fz-juelich.de:

$ module load git
$ module load Python-3.6.8

Note that some machines might raise an error conflict netcdf_c when loading anaconda3. In that case you will need to swap netcdf_c with anaconda3:

$ module swap netcdf_c anaconda3

Installing

First, make sure you add the following lines to one of your login or profile files, i.e. ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bashrc, ~/.profile, etc.:

$ export PATH=$PATH:~/.local/bin
$ export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
$ export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

To use the new version of the esm-tools, now rewritten in Python, clone this repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/esm-tools/esm_tools.git

Then, run the install.sh:

$ ./install.sh

You should now have the command line tools esm_master and esm_runscripts, which replace the old version.

You may have to add the installation path to your PATH variable:

$ export PATH=~/.local/bin:$PATH