Integrated Practical: Python in Geosciences

Spring semester 2023

Mathias Hauser, 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
• Updating the base environment
• 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)