Week 6 overview

Announcements

  1. HW2 will be assigned tomorrow (Wed. 9/27, due Wed. 10/11)

  2. HW1 will be marked by end-of-day Thursday 9/28

  3. Thursday office hour will be from 2:30 - 3:30 in room ETEC 483

  4. Due to fall break, in-class lecture will take place Thursday 10/12

  5. Be sure you are keeping up with weekly participation activities!

Learning Objectives:

  1. Gridded Data with Xarray

    • GRIB formatted data

    • Analysis-ready, cloud-optimized (ARCO) gridded datasets in Zarr format

  2. Error handling in Python

  3. Git and GitHub: Branches and Pull Requests

Learning and Participation Activities with Due Dates (Tuesday, Oct. 3):

  1. Xarray data analysis and visualization notebooks

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

    b. Clone Kevin’s week6 folder: git clone /spare11/atm533/ktyle/week6

    c. Open up a JupyterLab session on Turing

    d. Browse to your atm533/week6 directory

    e. Work through Xarray notebooks 6-9 (Notebooks 8, 9 demonstrated in class)

    f. Create a notebook named ErrorHandling.ipynb. View this MetPy Monday video and write code cells in this notebook that correspond to the video.

    Tip

    Include Markdown cells to document your notebook!


  2. Git and GitHub: Branches and Pull Requests

    Note: Be sure you are in the github-sandbox directory, *NOT* the github_sandbox directory!

    a. Branches

    b. Pull requests

    Note: Make sure you have completed working through the three previous GitHub chapters assigned last week!

Post any questions you have on the Week 6 Brightspace class forum.