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Backing up your work | Dr Climate
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Let's talk about how we do research in the weather and climate sciences. What is Dr Climate? Who is Dr Climate? April 16, 2013 / Damien Irving. Backing up your work. I suspect that one reason why people don’t regularly backup their work is that they aren’t aware of how easy it is these days. While everyone’s backup needs will be slightly different, here’s my take on backing up code, data and other general files. I’ve spoken previously. 8211; see my previous post. The reason I can be so obsessive compulsi...
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Podcasting comes to weather and climate science | Dr Climate
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Let's talk about how we do research in the weather and climate sciences. What is Dr Climate? Who is Dr Climate? January 12, 2016 / Damien Irving. Podcasting comes to weather and climate science. Over the past few years, podcasts have begun to emerge as the next great storytelling platform. While I’m as excited as the next podcast enthusiast about the new season of. Forecast: Climate Conversations with Michael White. 8211; a team from the MetOffice explores a new, mostly weather based topic each month.
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Software installation explained | Dr Climate
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Let's talk about how we do research in the weather and climate sciences. What is Dr Climate? Who is Dr Climate? October 30, 2014 / Damien Irving. Software installation has got to be one of the most frustrating, confusing and intimidating things that research scientists have to deal with. In fact, I’ve waxed poetic in the past (see this post. There are four major ways in which you might go about installing a certain software package. From easiest to hardest, they go as follows:. 1 Download an installer.
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Orientation Guide. | Dr Climate
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Let's talk about how we do research in the weather and climate sciences. What is Dr Climate? Who is Dr Climate? By collecting up all the relevant posts from this blog, this page is my attempt at provide one such orientation guide…. Picking the right programming language. Getting started with Python. The weather/climate Python stack. Getting past a programming impasse. Speeding up your code. Plugging into the computational best practice discussion. Chapter 2: Managing your code and data. A dose of humour.
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Are you CF compliant? | Dr Climate
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Let's talk about how we do research in the weather and climate sciences. What is Dr Climate? Who is Dr Climate? June 9, 2014 / Damien Irving. Are you CF compliant? Note that I’ve created an IPython notebook lesson. To accompany this post. Information about your data, otherwise known as metadata (i.e. data about your data), can also be stored in a netCDF file as a series of. Some people might use an attribute called ‘name’, but others might use ‘variable name’, ‘var name̵...This contains an audit trai...
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Climate literacy. | Dr Climate
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Let's talk about how we do research in the weather and climate sciences. What is Dr Climate? Who is Dr Climate? From my presentation at Nerd Nite Melbourne useful. If you think of any worthy additions to the list, please feel free to post a comment below. The Earth’s energy imbalance. Global warming hiatus periods. How long have we known that climate change is happening? Extreme weather and climate change. The Earth’s energy imbalance. Murphy et al 2009. And model ( Hansen et al 2012. It is sobering to n...
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Turning ripples into waves. Plotting a GeoDataFrame with folium. Dec 14, 2015. The visualization of thematic maps can get very messy very quick when there are many points to plot display. In this post we will plot data from. In the most visually efficient way possible. Lets open our shapefiles with. GeoPandas makes our task easy and that will . Read On ↵. Python tools for sgrid. Dec 07, 2015. Module implements the sgrid. Conventions akin to pyugrid. With a few comments to help people use it. Nov 30, 2015.
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Keeping up with Continuum | Dr Climate
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Let's talk about how we do research in the weather and climate sciences. What is Dr Climate? Who is Dr Climate? April 13, 2016 / Damien Irving. Keeping up with Continuum. I’m going to spend the next few hundred characters gushing over a for-profit company called Continuum Analytics. If you’ve heard the name Continuum Analytics before, it’s probably in relation to a widely used Python distribution called Anaconda. Provides support to customers using Linux. Create interactive web visualisations without kno...
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Version control | Dr Climate
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Let's talk about how we do research in the weather and climate sciences. What is Dr Climate? Who is Dr Climate? November 16, 2012 / Damien Irving. In a previous post on best practices for scientific computing. I listed the 10 recommendations put forward by a group of computing experts in a recent draft paper (see manuscript here. While all 10 will undoubtedly improve your computing, in my opinion number 5 is the most important: use version control. Them (i.e. keep a complete revision history)....Are t...
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