Software
The key to analysis of simulation datasets is software infrastructure. Below are my packages, packages I contributed to, and some all time favorites. Some tutorials are also available.
PRIMARY DEVELOPER:
Python Environment for Reaction Mechanism/Mathematics
http://github.com/barronh/permm
Python-based Process Analysis
http://github.com/barronh/pypa
PseudoNetCDF Python Library
http://github.com/barronh/pseudonetcdf
Python-based Kinetic Pre-Processor
http://github.com/barronh/pykpp
GEOS2CMAQ (obviated by pseudonetcdf's pncglobal2cmaq script)
http://github.com/barronh/geos2cmaq
http://github.com/barronh/pygeos2cmaq
CONTRIBUTOR:
NetCDF Java Library
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/
Python-based Performance Analysis Supporting System
https://dawes.sph.unc.edu/trac/pyPASS
Dynamically Simple Model of Atmospheric Chemical Complexity
http://github.com/barronh/DSMACC
Wisconsin Horizontal Interpolation Program for Satellites
http://github.com/barronh/WHIPS
matplotlib
FAVORITES BY OTHERS:
NumPy
SciPy
NetCDF Operators (NCO)
Climate Data Operators