NetCDF4 unavailable on Orion

[DavidHuber-NOAA]

It seems that the NetCDF4 module has been removed from intelpython3/2020 (and intelpython3/2020.2) on Orion. When running verif-global standalone, I am receiving errors that it cannot be loaded. Loading the module from bash and executing conda list -n <all_envs> | grep -i netcdf verifies that it is not available. Perhaps another Python module should be loaded or it should be added to that distribution.

[malloryprow]

@DavidHuber-NOAA That is frustrating it was removed! Have you looked around at any of the other python modules on Orion to see if they are available?

[DavidHuber-NOAA]

Yes, python/3.7.5 has it, though metplus still requires the intelpython3/2020 module be loaded. My workaround is to add module load python/3.7.5 to load_modules.sh after module load emc_verif_global_orion This is a little ugly, but it works. Perhaps this could be rectified by modifying the metplus modulefile to allow different python modules.

[malloryprow]

Glad you found a workaround! I have the METplus Users Workshop today through Wednesday. I'll see if I can get the workaround included in the develop branch late this week/next week. I'm not sure if the module files can be adjusted. I think MET was built using the intelpython3/2020.

[malloryprow]

@DavidHuber-NOAA Changes merged into develop branch

[DavidHuber-NOAA]

Thanks!