Installation

RCAT is a python3 based tool and the easiest way to get started is by using the Conda framework. If you don’t have conda installed follow the installation guide from start. Otherwise you can follow from RCAT environment .

N.B. conda-forge channel need to be added in $HOME/.condarc

Miniconda

Install Miniconda

Add conda-forge channel

  • create $HOME/.condarc file
channels:
    - conda-forge
    - defaults

Update conda

  • conda update conda

RCAT environment

Create environment

  • conda create -n rcat

Activate environment

  • conda activate rcat

Install dependencies

It’s important that you follow the order of the installation list below due to a bug in the esmpy module.

  • conda install esmpy
  • conda install xesmf dask
  • conda install netcdf4 dask-jobqueue matplotlib basemap