ANTS Command Line Tools#

To assist with carrying out common steps in ancillary file generation, a number of “general purpose” command line tools are provided. These are briefly outlined here and detailed in full later in the documentation.

ancil_2anc.py#

ancil_2anc.py loads one or more iris cubes from the provided filepath(s) and saves them to the output filepath in NetCDF and/or ancillary file format.

ancil_create_shapefile.py#

ancil_create_shapefile.py creates and saves a shapefile from a list of pairs of longitude, latitude points that define a single polygon.

ancil_fill_n_merge.py#

The ancil_fill_n_merge.py application both merges different datasets together and fills missing values.

ancil_general_regrid.py#

The ancil_general_regrid.py application regrids a source file onto a specified target grid.