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

  2. Accessing data from a remote server: NCAR’s Remote Data Archive

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

    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)


  2. Set up an Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)


  3. Post your ORCID on the relevant Brightspace thread


  4. Git and GitHub: Forking and Cloning

    a. Cloning and Forking

    b. Configuring your GitHub Account

    c. Basic Version Control with git

    Note: 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 https .

Post any questions you have on the Week 5 Brightspace class forum.