Tutorials#
Three runnable notebooks — each end-to-end on the public archives, no credentials. Take them in order; each one builds on what the last one taught.
Tip
Run Verify your install once before the first tutorial to confirm import xarray, icechunk and the connection to s3://nexrad-arco work in your environment.
Open weather radar archives in 5 lines of code
Open the KLOT (Chicago) archive on the AWS Open Data Registry as one xarray.DataTree and visualize a polarimetric scan.
Reproduce Ryzhkov et al. (2016): traditional vs ARCO
Compute the QVP for the May 20, 2011 KVNX MCS via the traditional file workflow vs ARCO streaming and measure the gap — ~6 min vs ~10 s on the same bytes.
QPE scaling: from hours to months
Marshall–Palmer Z–R rainfall accumulation, live for one day. Cluster-recommended copy-paste templates for 7d / 30d / 6mo runs included.