Integrated Practical: Python in Geosciences

Spring semester 2025

Mathias Hauser, Valentin Gebhart, Robin Noyelle, Ciullo Alessio, Doris Folini Chahan Kropf, Hussain Abbas with Urs Beyerle, Sylvaine Ferrachat, Alexander Scherrmann

Course material for the course Integrated Practical: Python in Geosciences.

The course aims at promoting practical python skills that are useful for your BSc / MSc studies and beyond. It should enable you to work independently with python on your own laptop, with a focus on geoscience topics.

Installing python

• Preparation
• Installing python with conda
• Using conda from the command line
• conda environments
• Running Python

Introduction

• Download introduction material

Project: Climate risk modelling

• Climate risk modelling with CLIMADA

Project: Analyse CMIP data

• Part 0 - Intro & preparation
• Part 1 - Calculate global mean temperature
• Part 2 - Reading global mean temperature data
• Part 3 - Annual maximum temperature (TXx)
• Part 4 - Global warming levels (i)
• Part 5 - Global warming levels (ii)

Project: Fronts

• Part 0 - Introduction
• Part 1 - Equivalent potential temperature
• Part 2 - Find fronts
• Part 3 - Front climatology