Week 11 overview

Learning Objectives:

  1. End-to-end Science-on-a-Sphere product generation from a Jupyter notebook

  2. Interactive visualization

Learning and Participation Activities with Due Dates (Mon. Nov. 7, end of day)

  1. Xarray data analysis and visualization notebooks

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

    b. Clone Kevin’s week11 folder: git clone /spare11/atm533/ktyle/week11

    c. Open up a JupyterLab session on Turing

    d. Browse to your atm533/week11 directory

    e. Work through the notebooks


  2. Team assignments:

Continued work on your ERA-5 case study:

Once you have familiarized yourself with and run through the End-to-end SOS ERA5 notebook, use it as a template in your team/Midterm folder. You will create one notebook for each unique visualization that you create.


As you execute each noteook, be sure to modify the first (caseDir) and second (prodDir) so it fits your group’s case and your individual product. I.e., everyone on your team will use the same caseDir name, and each of you will have a unique defining prodDir.


Version control with Git: In each of your top-level team directories, copy /spare11/atm533/ktyle/week11/.gitignore to that directory.

As each of you create and make refinements to your individual notebooks, remember to regularly stage and commit, and periodically push to GitHub.


Syncing your visualization to the SoS computer:

There will be a scheduled task, running a few times per hour, that will monitor each team’s Midterm directory and copy the caseDir directory tree to the SoS computer.

Testing your visualizations on the SoS computer:

  • The End-to-End SOS ERA5 notebook includes a link to an external site, MapToGlobe, which will simulate how your graphics will appear on the Sphere.

  • There will be opportunities for you to load and visualize your products on the SoS. One opportunity is this Thursday, 2-3:30 PM.

The Monday Nov. 7 due date is when your notebooks and the content they generate need to be in place. There will be additional time thereafter to “perfect” their look!


  1. Post any questions you have on the Midterm SoS project to the MidTerm SoS Project forum.

  2. Post questions you have on the Week 11 material to the week 11 forum.