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What is zppy?

zppy (pronounced “zippee”) is a workflow manager for post-processing E3SM simulations, written in Python. The goal of zppy is to speed up post-processing by automating commonly performed tasks.

zppy is built around a set of tasks that perform specific actions, such as generating (regridded) time series or climatology files using NCO’s ncclimo, or generating analysis figures with E3SM Diags or MPAS-Analysis. zppy provides a framework to simplify the use of these tools, especially for long simulations.

zppy is controlled entirely from a single user-provided configuration file (e.g., mysimulation.cfg). This configuration file specifies input and output directories, as well as the list of tasks to run. Each task operates for a specific model component and over a specified number of years—for example, generating atmosphere climatology files every 20 and 50 years.

zppy parses the configuration file and generates batch jobs that are submitted for execution by SLURM. Dependencies between tasks are handled and passed to SLURM. Internally, each batch job is created by instantiating Jinja template scripts (usually written in bash, but other languages are supported as well).

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