Lightweight NetCDF viewer with detached plot windows, GIF export, and full matplotlib customization.

Install

pip install nc2

Run

nc2 yourfile.nc

Features

• Spatial plots -- pcolormesh, contourf, contour, imshow, quiver, streamplot
• Cross-sections -- vertical and horizontal slices
• Timeseries -- click a point to extract
• Depth profiles -- vertical structure at any point
• GIF export -- animate over time
• All colormaps -- every matplotlib colormap
• Projections -- cartopy map projections
• Playback -- loop, bounce, speed control
• Flexible -- auto-detect dimensions or override manually

Formats

.nc .nc4 .cdf .netcdf .hdf5 .h5

Requirements

Python 3.8+ · numpy · matplotlib · netCDF4 · cartopy · ttkbootstrap · Pillow · imageio