Tools
Softwares
NCL. NCAR Command Language. Free software well adapted for climate & meteorological analysis.
R. The R-project. Free interpreted language with lots of statistical packages already available.
Climate Data Operators (CDO). Processing of netcdf files.
NetCDF Operator (NCO). Processing of netcdf files.
UNIDATA software webpage
IDV. 3D real time visualization soft.
MetPy. Python tools for weather data.
NASA GISS Software & Tools
Panoply. netCDF, HDF and GRIB Data Viewer & G.projector by NASA.
Ferret. Analysis tool for climate datasets by NOAA.
GrADS software
ESMValTool. Climate plots & file processing.
Cylc. Python based Workflow Engine.
Tutorials
I've written tutorials and examples for basic linux commands, Netcdf file manipulation, NCO and the ferret visualization software (*.pdf). It can be useful for PhD or Master students starting basic analysis.