Hello, I`ve spent the last 25 years (ouch, writing that, I feel old!) in climate research and developing climate and weather forecast operations models at ECMWF and the University of Reading (UK), Max Planck Institute for meteorology (Germany) and ICTP (Italy). My answers on stackoverflow are mostly concerned with efficient processing of gridded climate data using CDO or python. If you find my answers helpful then please check out my new youtube channel, I am in the process of uploading a series of videos on climate data analysis, which I hope will be helpful to students new to handling gridded data. This will be followed shortly by a series on climate and weather processes and phenomena intended for the general public. Instead my homepage at ICTP outlining some of my research . ©