# Week 5 overview

## Learning Objectives:
1. Gridded Data with Xarray

   - Learn the three main components of an Xarray data object: *data variables*, *coordinate variables*, *named dimensions*

   - Visualize gridded datasets

1. Accessing data from a remote server: [NCAR's Remote Data Archive](https://rda.ucar.edu)

## Learning and Participation Activities with Due Dates (Monday, Mon. Oct. 3, Noon EDT):
1. Xarray data analysis and visualization notebooks

   a. `cd` to your `/spare11/atm533/<NetID>` directory

   b. Clone Kevin's week5 folder: 
      `git clone /spare11/atm533/ktyle/week5`

   c. Open up a JupyterLab session on [Turing](https://turing.atmos.albany.edu:8000)

   d. Browse to your atm533/week5 directory

   e. Work through notebooks 1-5 (We will spend some time in class Tuesday on some of these notebooks)

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1. Set up an [Open Researcher and Contributor ID (**ORCID**)](https://orcid.org/register)

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1. Post your ORCID on the relevant Brightspace thread

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1. Git and GitHub: Forking and Cloning

   - cd to the top level of your <code>/spare11/atm533/\<netid\></code> folder and work through these three chapters in [Project Pythia Foundations](https://projectpythia.org):
   
   a. [Cloning and Forking](https://foundations.projectpythia.org/foundations/github/github-cloning-forking.html)
   
   b. [Configuring your GitHub Account](https://foundations.projectpythia.org/foundations/github/github-setup-advanced.html)
   
   c. [Basic Version Control with git](https://foundations.projectpythia.org/foundations/github/basic-git.html)

   <div class="alert alert-block alert-warning"><b>Note: </b>You have already configured your Git and GitHub environments for SSH. You do not need to set up a secure personal access token for use with a GitHub URL that uses <b>https</b> .
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<h3>Post any questions you have on the Week 5 Brightspace class forum. </h3>