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What is Xarray?
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Xarray is a powerful Python library that introduces labelled multidimensional arrays.
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Xarray is a powerful Python library that introduces labelled multidimensional arrays. This means the axes have labels (=dimensions), each row/column has a label (coordinates), and labels can even have units of measurement. This makes it much easier to follow what the data in an array means and select specific portions of data.
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We will first download a dataset similar to the example above to illustrate the advantages of Xarray. We will cover how to transform your own data into an Xarray Dataset later in this lecture.
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Let us open a python shell and download a public dataset: ::

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