Week 6 overview¶

Learning Objectives:¶

Gridded Data with Xarray
- Learn the three main components of an Xarray data object: data variables, coordinate variables, named dimensions
- Visualize gridded datasets
Git and GitHub: Version Control

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 notebooks 1-3
Set up a user account at NCAR’s Research Data Archive
Store your RDA account credentials as follows:

a. cd to your home directory: cd

b. Create a text file and name it .rdarc

c. This text file will contain one line, consisting of the user ID and the password you chose, separated by a blank space. E.g.: ddane@albany.edu MyPa$$word

d. Change the permissions on this file so only you can read/write to/from it: chmod 600 .rdarc
Work through notebook 4. This notebook requires that you have stored your RDA account credentials in a file in your home directory.
Version control in Git:
- We will follow the workflows in https://foundations.projectpythia.org/foundations/github/github-cloning-forking.html and https://foundations.projectpythia.org/foundations/github/basic-git.html, but will use our individual repositories on the class GitHub organization.
Team assignments:

I will be assigning you into teams of 2 or 3 for the collaborative coding assignments / projects to follow. I will notify you via Blackboard of your provisional team assignment.