Week 7 overview

Announcements¶

• HW2: Due Thursday 10/16¶

• Next week:

  • No class meeting (Fall break)
  • Week 8 Repo will be set up, with associated activites as usual (announced on BrightSpace)
  • Sincere’s office hour Thursday 10/16 will be 9-10AM
  • No Thursday office hour / lab session
  • Reach out to Kevin to arrange a Zoom session Thu. or Fri.

Learning Objectives:¶

1. Remote access of the ERA5 Zarr-formatted archive

Learning and Participation Activities with Due Dates (Thursday, Oct. 16, end of day):¶

In class, Tuesday 10/7¶

1. Destination Earth Account Setup (On website and your .netrc file)

2. Final Project Initial Steps

   a. Team assignments

   b. Move seats to sit with your team members

3. Xarray notebook (ERA5 Zarr)

   a. cd into your atm533 folder: simply type atm533

   b. Clone the week 7 repository: git clone git@github.com:DAES433533/week7

4. Gridded datasets

• Interactive work on the ERA5 Xarray notebook

On your own:¶

1. By end of day Thu. 10/16 Sign up for your Zenodo account. Use your OrcID to register.

2. Explore some of the Project Pythia Cookbooks. Your team project will roughly follow the template used in these Cookbooks. More details regarding the project structure will follow over the next couple weeks.

3. By end of day Thu. 10/16 Meet with your team members and decide on a name for your team. Add a comment in the Team Assignments document with your suggested team name.

4. By 4:30 PM Tue. 10/21 Create and share with your team members (plus Kevin and Sincere) an initial document for your project. Use any word processor you like (Word, Google Docs, etc.). All team members should contribute some of your initial project ideas. Share the document with Kevin and Sincere.

5. Subscribe to and post any questions / comments to the Week 7 Thread on Brightspace.

6. Subscribe to and post any questions / comments to the Final Team Project Thread on Brightspace.