SEWAA TRAINING ON EVALUATION OF THE CGAN and WRF Models ICPAC Headquarters, Ngong, Kenya 22- 26 July 2024

22^nd to 26^th July 2024, ICPAC, Nairobi, Kenya

Python Introduction On 11:00-13:00, 22nd July 2024:

Agenda:

• Introduction to Python
• Introduction to ChatGPT for learning Python
• Climate data analysis with Python Modifying and selecting variables using xarray
• Setting up a map with cartopy, plotting contour and filled contour
• Plotting wind vector, overlaying with cartopy

Hands on

• The workshop dataset is stored in the google drive link https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Dad7mUn4CLVRUjOtCZ1JBOm_Knwf_sCx/view

• to setup an python environment, micromamba is an options,
  https://mamba.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation/micromamba-installation.html

"${SHELL}" <(curl -L micro.mamba.pm/install.sh)
micromamba self-update
micromamba activate base
micromamba install python pip -c conda-forge 
micromamba install -c conda-forge xarray zarr cartopy jupyterlab 

• To start Jupyter lab notebook

git clone https://github.com/icpac-igad/python-workshop.git
cd python-workshop
git activate sewaa-ws-202407
micromamba activate base
cd python-workshop
jupyter lab --no-browser --port=8888

• To access the Jupyter notebook from your computer, in firefox/Chromium borwser, type http://localhost:8888

In cluster ssh computer

• To login to the computer with Jupyter enabled, open the port with desired number between 6000-8888 in seperate terminal

ssh -NL 8888:localhost:8888 [email protected]

• In another terminal, ssh into the machine by

ssh -X [email protected]