User Guide
==========

Below is the original User Guide, written in a linear narrative style. Reading
through this will give you a comprehensive grounding in Iris' data model and
functionality.

Much of the content has supplementary links to the reference documentation;
you will not need to follow these links in order to understand the guide but
they may serve as a useful reference for future exploration.

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   Since later pages depend on earlier ones, try reading this user guide
   sequentially using the ``next`` and ``previous`` links at the bottom
   of each page.

.. note:: 
   
   There is also useful learning material held in the
   https://github.com/scitools-classroom repo, including tutorials, courses
   and presentations.


.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   ../explanation/iris_cubes
   ../tutorial/loading_iris_cubes
   ../tutorial/saving_iris_cubes
   ../how_to/navigating_a_cube
   ../tutorial/subsetting_a_cube
   ../explanation/real_and_lazy_data
   ../tutorial/plotting_a_cube
   ../tutorial/interpolation_and_regridding
   ../tutorial/merge_and_concat
   ../tutorial/cube_statistics
   ../tutorial/cube_maths