Tutorials

Python and Climate Science

• Climate Systems Center (CSC) Climate Wiki: Topics include climate research, the philosophy of modularizing climate models, the use of Python in climate modeling, and software packages produced by CSC.
• Lectures on Python for Climate Scientists: Notes from a series of lectures by Ray Pierrehumbert (2003). Topics covered include basic constructs, using Python for simulation, and using the cdms package.
• Python/CDAT (Climate Data Analysis Tools) for Earth Scientists: Tips and Examples: Collection by Johnny Lin of tips and examples on using Python in the earth sciences, with an emphasis on climate science.
• CDAT Tutorials: Library of tutorial presentations for the CDAT package.

General Python

• An Introduction to Python: Tutorials by Mike Steder focusing on basic constructs. v0.2 includes placeholders for advanced graphics and sound.

Topics for Future Tutorials

• How to set up an affordable Beowulf cluster for ocean-atmosphere general circulation modeling
• Introduction to the CVS Source Code Control system
• How to run the FOAM ocean-atmosphere GCM
• Visualizing climate data and model output:
  • The netCDF file format
  • ncview
  • ncl
  • VCDAT, cdms, and vcs
  • Matlab
• Tips on setting up an OS X Mac as a Climate Systems Workstation
• Python and Parallel Processing using MPI