xclim: xarray-based climate data analytics

• DOI: 10.21105/joss.05415
• Publication Date: 2023-05-18T17:07:02Z
• Authors: Pascal Bourgault; David Huard; Trevor James Smith; Travis Logan; Abel Aoun; Juliette Lavoie; Éric Dupuis; Gabriel Rondeau-G...; Raquel Alegre; Clair Barnes; Alexis Beaupré La...; Sébastien Biner; David Caron; Carsten Ehbrecht; Jeremy Fyke; Tom Keel; Marie-Pier Labonté; Ludwig Lierhammer; Jwen-Fai Low; Jamie Quinn; Philippe Roy; Dougie Squire; Ag Stephens; Maliko Tanguy; Christopher Whelan
• Keywords: Data Analysis

xclim is a Python library that enables computation of climate indicators over large, heterogeneous data sets.It built using xarray objects and operations, can seamlessly benefit from the parallelization handling provided by dask, relies on community conventions for formatting metadata attributes.xclim meant as tool to facilitate both science research delivery operational services products.In addition indicator calculations, also includes utilities bias correction statistical adjustment, ensemble analytics, model diagnostics, quality assurance, standards compliance.