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Section 1: Introduction

  • This notebook illustrates how to compute and plot various Nino indices using the HadISST dataset hosted on NCAR’s Geoscience Data Exchange (GDEX)

  • Python package imports and useful function definitions

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Section 2: Set up a Dask Cluster on Casper

  • Setting up a dask cluster. You will need an NCAR HPC account to do this.

Section 3: Data Loading and transforms

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  • Convert longitude from [-180,180) to [0,360)

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Section 4: Data Analysis

  • Define the various nino regions and their spatial extent as a dictionary

  • Compute area weighted spatial mean

  • Make a quick plot of Nino indices

  • Compute anomalies w.r.t to a baseline period

  • Compute 6 month running mean and visualize El Nino events

  • Optional: Compare with NOAA Nino index calculation

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Compute Nino anomalies

Acknowledgements