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diff --git a/python/xarray/README b/python/xarray/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..9b2f842138274 --- /dev/null +++ b/python/xarray/README @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +xarray is an open source project and Python package that aims to bring the +labeled data power of pandas to the physical sciences, by providing +N-dimensional variants of the core pandas data structures. + +The goal is to provide a pandas-like and pandas-compatible toolkit for +analytics on multi-dimensional arrays, rather than the tabular data for which +pandas excels. Our approach adopts the Common Data Model for self- describing +scientific data in widespread use in the Earth sciences: xarray.Dataset is an +in-memory representation of a netCDF file. |