Welcome to Pyroms!

Pyroms is a collection of tools to help with input and output files
from the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS). It was originally
started by Rob Hetland as a googlecode project, then he morphed it
into octant, also at googlecode. Frederic Castruccio then created a
fork and renamed it back to pyroms. This version is now in private
development, but we will release it here when it's ready.

Meanwhile, you can prepare by installing this collection of
packages:

   * Python itself. You will need a version between 2.4 and 2.6, inclusive.

   * numpy. Get a version that's reasonably new, don't count on the
     version 1.0.1 that you found already on the system. How do you
     tell the version? At the interactive prompt from python, type
     "import numpy" then "numpy.__version__".

   * scipy.

   * matplotlib. This is a plotting package to reproduce the Matlab
     plotting, complete with everything you might not like about
     Matlab plotting. This also contains the gui tools, but it
     depends on an underlying gui package, be that tk, wx, X11, or
     qt. If it can't find any of them, it's time to install one.

   * basemap from matplotlib. These are the map tools for Python,
     complete with etopo2 in the examples directory (user beware).

   * netCDF4 from Jeff Whitaker. This sits on top of the hdf5 and
     netcdf4 libraries.

   * ipython. Fred Castruccio recommends using "ipython -pylab" for
     interactive fun. It preloads both numpy and the matplotlib
     pylab package.

We may also add pyngl and pynio from NCAR to this list.