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magics: meteorological plotting software

Overview of package

Package: magics
Description: meteorological plotting software
For more information: https://confluence.ecmwf.int/display/MAGP/Magics
Categories: Visualization
Meteorology
License: OpenSource (Apache License 2.0)

General Usage

Magics is a meteorological plotting software package developed by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forcasts (ECMRWF). It provides Python and Fortran interfaces.

This module will add the metgramx and metgram commands to your PATH.

The following environmental variables have been defined:

  • $MAGICS_ROOT has been set to the root of the magics installation
  • $MAGICS_LIBDIR points to the directory containing the libraries
  • $MAGICS_INCDIR points to the directory containing the header files

You will probably wish to use these by adding the following flags to your compilation command (e.g. to CFLAGS in your Makefile):

  • -I$MAGICS_INCDIR

and the following flags to your link command (e.g. LDFLAGS in your Makefile):

  • -L$MAGICS_LIBDIR -Wl,-rpath,$MAGICS_LIBDIR

Available versions by cluster

This section lists the available versions of the package magicson the UMD HPC clusters.

Versions available on the Zaratan cluster

Version Module tags CPU(s) optimized for GPU ready?
4.9.3 4.9.3 icelake, zen2 Yes