Cdat-lite is a Python package for managing and analysing climate science data. It is a subset of the Climate Data Analysis Tools (CDAT) developed by PCMDI at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Cdat-lite aims to compliment CDAT by focussing on it's core data management and analysis components and by offering a radically different installation system to CDAT. As a result it is much more lightweight (hence the name): CDAT's source distribution is the order of 1Gb whereas cdat-lite is under 5Mb.

Cdat-lite is designed to work with the CF checker package.