Python Tools for Geosciences
Overview
Instructor: Abishek Gopal
Time: Friday, April 1, 2022 — 1:30PM-4:00PM CT
Location: Blocker 220
Prerequisites: Current HPRC account, experience with Python or scientific programing languages (MATLAB, NCL etc), some experience with data structures and Jupyter notebooks is recommended
This short course will introduce Python packages relevant to Geoscientific data analysis. We will introduce the Pangeo collection of python-based utilities to process and visualize output from General Circulation Models (GCMs). This class is intended to serve as an exploratory class on Geoscience-related Python packages for users with some proficiency in other scripting & programming languages (MATLAB, NCL, etc).
Course Materials
- Pre-class instructions: here
- Python Tools for Geosciences (Spring 2022): PDF
- Github: https://github.com/abishekg7/python_geos
Previous Semester Materials
Agenda
This course focuses, among others, on the following topics:
- Brief introduction to the Pangeo framework
- Data structures in xarray
- Reading and writing netCDF files using xarray
- Visualizing xarray DataArrays with cartopy
- Grid-aware, spatial operations using xgcm
- Accessing Buoy and Satellite data with Siphon
Note: During the class sessions many aspects of the material will be illustrated live via a Jupyter notebook.