TRACER Radar Examples#

This is a place to collaborate on data related to the Tracking Aerosol Convection Interactions EXperiment (TRACER). The main data used is here is from the CSAPR2, as well as the local NEXRAD radar.

Motivation#

This repository is for collaborating on workflows and visualizations related to the TRACER related radars near Houston Texas. We use a variety of datasets (mostly radar) to investigate different events, and provide open workflows for others to use.

Authors#

Max Grover Marcus van Lier-Walqui Eric Bruning Scott Collis

Contributors#

Structure#

Site Exploration#

Initial data exploration, looking at sample cases and associated datasets such as the ARM CSAPR2 radar.

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 Shift+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:

  1. Clone the https://github.com/ARM-Development/tracer-radar repository:

     git clone https://github.com/ARM-Development/tracer-radar.git

  2. Move into the tracer-radar directory

    cd tracer-radar

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

    conda env create -f environment.yml
conda activate tracer-radar-dev

  4. Move into the notebooks directory and start up Jupyterlab

    cd notebooks/
jupyter lab