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Python for Atmosphere and Ocean Scientists
This is a common issue, particular for data on a curvilinear ocean grid. Relevant notes can be found at the following issues: * https://github.com/DamienIrving/ocean-analysis/issues/2 * https://github.com/DamienIrving/ocean-analysis/issues/6
Showing a zoomed in portion of the global map can provide further examples of using [cartopy features](https://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/docs/latest/matplotlib/feature_interface.html) such as: 1. using the dataframe.sel(lat=x,lon=y,method='nearest') method to select the lat/lon extent. 2....
On one hand I like the longer file names used in the lessons (e.g. `pr_Amon_ACCESS-ESM1-5_historical_r1i1p1f1_gn_201001-201412-SON-clim.png`) because it teaches good practices around data reference syntax, but on the other hand it's...
It might be a good idea to have [Pangeo Binder](https://binder.pangeo.io/) available as a backup for those people who have problems getting everything working on their own machines. The Binder instances...
Using JupyterLab when teaching the lessons would make switching between notebooks, scripts and the command line much easier. The limitation at the moment is that the terminal application in JupyerLab...
GitHub has recently changed the interface at the time of repo creation to prompt creation of license, readme etc. Also note GitHub seems to be pushing strongly toward use of...
This PR addresses 2 related issues: previewing lessons on a local machine (in this case MacOS Mohave) and running the python-based lesson checking scripts included in https://github.com/carpentries/lesson-example * Previewing. Previewing...
The Carpentries Lesson Template includes a section on [Checking and Previewing](https://carpentries.github.io/lesson-example/07-checking/index.html). There are scripts for that which are not included in the python-aos-lesson. I would like to try using those...
I am working my way through the lessons in preparation for teaching it in the fall. I hit a snag right off when I moved to episode 1 from the...
In the [GitHub](https://github.com/carpentrieslab/python-aos-lesson/edit/gh-pages/_episodes/06-github.md) section of the lesson, the author uses screenshots of a repository hosted at https://github.com/DamienIrving/data-carpentry to walk the student through the process of getting started on GitHub. Unfortunately,...