Starting now, and continuing until the end of the semester, we will be using a custom Python package called climlab (in addition to Python, numpy, matplotlib, etc.) climlab has code for lots of bits and piece of climate models that we will use in our exercises.

To install climlab, I recommend opening a command prompt on your laptop, and do this:

conda install netcdf4

(this will install a package for reading/writing data files that we will need)

and then do this:

pip install climlab

After this, you should open a Python session and type import climlab and ensure that there are no error messages.