Model Analysis Tools

The Mars Climate Modeling Center (MCMC) provides data analysis tools for processing output from our Mars Global Climate Models (MGCMs), helping researchers and the public explore Martian climate data in detail.

At the core of our analysis capabilities is the Community Analysis Pipeline (CAP), a powerful, Python-based software package designed to work with MGCM output (see Model Output tab) and derived datasets. It allows users to:

• Generate plots and visualizations of atmospheric variables, seasonal cycles, and climate phenomena.
• Perform detailed analyses of temperature, pressure, wind, dust, and water distributions.
• Derive secondary variables such as potential temperature, heating rates, and tidal amplitudes.
• Interpolate and manipulate datasets across pressure levels or geographic regions.
• Compare model outputs across different MGCM versions, including both the FV3-based MGCM and the Legacy MGCM.

CAP is designed to be user-friendly yet highly flexible, supporting research from initial exploration to publication-quality figures. By integrating with the MGCM output datasets, CAP enables both new and experienced users to extract meaningful scientific insights efficiently.

The link to CAP’s source code is below. See CAP’s readthedocs site for installation instructions, tool descriptions, and example use-cases.

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