xarray-tutorial

This repository contains materials for the xarray tutorial.

Running the tutorial

There are two different ways in which you can set up and go through the tutorial materials. Both of which are outlined in the table below.

Method	Setup	Description
Binder		Run the tutorial notebooks on mybinder.org without installing anything locally.
Local install	Instructions	Download the tutorial notebooks and install the necessary packages (via conda) locally. Setting things up locally can take a few minutes, so we recommend going through the installation steps prior to the tutorial.

Local installation instructions

1. Clone the repository

First clone this repository to your local machine via:

git clone https://github.com/andersy005/xarray-tutorial

2. Download conda (if you haven't already)

If you do not already have the conda package manager installed, please follow the instructions here.

3. Create a conda environment

Navigate to the xarray-tutorial/ directory and create a new conda environment with the required packages via:

cd xarray-tutorial
conda env update --file binder/environment.yml

This will create a new conda environment named "xarray-tutorial".

4. Activate the environment

Next, activate the environment:

conda activate xarray-tutorial

5. Download sample datasets

To download sample datasets, run the 00-download-data.ipynb notebook:

cd notebooks/
nbterm --run 00-download-data.ipynb

6. Launch JupyterLab

Finally, launch JupyterLab with:

jupyter lab