Climate-Variability-Extremes Cookbook

This Project Pythia Cookbook aims to cover the basics of climate variability and extremes, and then analyze this using CESM2-SF-LE data. It provides user-friendly examples and, in the end, an interactive platform. Additionally, it includes some reading materials and links

Motivation

Understanding what drives climate variability and extremes is crucial for our future. Are these changes due to natural processes, or are human activities like greenhouse gas emissions and aerosols the main culprits? Moreover, how do these drivers impact regions differently compared to the global scale? The CESM2 Single Forcing Large Ensemble (CESM2-SF-LE) project allows us to dig into these questions by isolating the effects of different climate factors. Add a few sentences stating why this cookbook will be useful. What skills will you, "the chef", gain once you have reached the end of the cookbook?)

Authors

Debanjana das, Second Author, etc. Acknowledge primary content authors here

Contributors

Structure

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Section 1 ( Replace with the title of this section, e.g. "Foundations" )

(Add content for this section, e.g., "The foundational content includes ... ")

Section 2 ( Replace with the title of this section, e.g. "Example workflows" )

(Add content for this section, e.g., "Example workflows include ... ")

Running the Notebooks

You can either run the notebook using Binder or on your local machine.

Running on Binder

The simplest way to interact with a Jupyter Notebook is through Binder, which enables the execution of a Jupyter Book in the cloud. The details of how this works are not important for now. All you need to know is how to launch a Pythia Cookbooks chapter via Binder. Simply navigate your mouse to the top right corner of the book chapter you are viewing and click on the rocket ship icon, (see figure below), and be sure to select “launch Binder”. After a moment you should be presented with a notebook that you can interact with. I.e. you’ll be able to execute and even change the example programs. You’ll see that the code cells have no output at first, until you execute them by pressing {kbd}Shift+{kbd}Enter. Complete details on how to interact with a live Jupyter notebook are described in Getting Started with Jupyter.

Running on Your Own Machine

If you are interested in running this material locally on your computer, you will need to follow this workflow:

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1. Clone the https://github.com/ProjectPythia/cookbook-example repository:

    git clone https://github.com/ProjectPythia/cookbook-example.git

2. Move into the cookbook-example directory

   cd cookbook-example

3. Create and activate your conda environment from the environment.yml file

   conda env create -f environment.yml
   conda activate cookbook-example

4. Move into the notebooks directory and start up Jupyterlab

   cd notebooks/
   jupyter lab