Software Tools for Earth and Environmental Science - Week 3

YSB 801E

November 6, 2020

Data Sources-Download and NCL

  • Syllabus

  • Linux - Repeat and Practice

  • Data and Metadata

  • Data Formats

  • Data Sources

  • Data Download

  • NCL, nco and cdo

  • Next Week

Syllabus

Syllabus

Extended Syllabus PDF

Last Week

Course Home Page LINK

  • Week 1 - Slide LINK
  • Week 2 - Slide LINK

3th Week - Extended Syllabus

Ek Ders (Extra Class/Additional Course)

We will repeat and discuss the first three weeks of the course in Turkish. Ninova -> Announcement

Questionnaire - LINK

Linux - Repeat and Practice

At First - Split Screen

Can you split your screen? (two different windows are on the same screen - Presentation and Web Browser)

Repeat - Linux

webminal.org

Log In -> Terminal -> ‘Launch It’ -> Log In

Repeat and Practice

  • Direction Commands
    • pwd (Print Working Directory)
    • ls (List Directories)
    • cd (Change Directory)
    • mkdir (Make Directory)
  • File Commands
    • touch
    • cat (Concatenate)
    • rm (Remove)
    • cp (Copy)
    • mv (Move)
  • vi command
    • esc and i
    • :q and :q! and :qw

Practice

  1. Learn where you are (Print your working directory)
  2. Look at inside (list all documents and directories)
  3. Create a new folder (make a directory,<my_new_dir>)
  4. Go to the <my_new_dir> (change your directory)
  5. Create a new file (touch it, file name : <my_new_file>)
  6. Open your file with text editor (vi <my_new_file>)
  7. Activate Insert mode (with i)
  8. Write this line: echo what am i doing here
  9. Write/Save and Quit (:wq)
  10. Change your new file name (move <my_new_file.sh>)
  11. Run the script <my_new_file.sh> (bash .sh)
  12. Turn back parent directory (cd ..)
  13. Delete all files and folders (remove -rf)

DataCamp - Shell

LINK

Data and Metadata

What is Data?

Data are things, known or assumed as facts, making the basis of reasoning or calculation.

What is Metadata?

Metadata is information about data.

What is Metadata?

Data Formats

Data Formats

  • Data Types

  • Data Set

  • Data Formats

LINK

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Data Sources

Data Sources

  • Earthdata
  • KNMI
  • Wordclim
  • ERA
  • GFS
  • ESGF
  • CRU
  • E-OBS
  • CPC
  • NOAA

LINK

Data Download

Data Download

  • Click
  • ftp, sftp, https
  • ssh, nfs, smb
  • wget, curl

LINK

cdo, nco and NCL

cdo, nco and NCL

Operators (like Packages)

  • cdo
  • nco

Language

  • NCL

LINK

BONUS - DataCamp - Conda Course

Conda Essentials

LINK

Next (4th) Week

Syllabus

Extended Syllabus

BOOK

The Book of R - The Language - Getting Started

(Part 1, Section 1, Pg. 3-14)

The Book of R - PDF

Homework

  • Download R and R Studio

Udemy - R Basics - LINK

  • Introduction to R

Datacamp - Introduction to R - Intro to basics - LINK

Getting Started with R

I created a basic Interactive Training with R-Shinny (Inspired from code_academy and ismail sezen)

LINK

Getting Started with R

QUIZ

R - Getting Started

See you

at EK DERS :)