Homework 10: Cartopy¶

1) Plot data from NARR¶

NARR is NCEP's North American Regional Reanalysis, a widely used product for studying the weather and climate of the continental US. The data is available from NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory via OPeNDAP, meaing that xarray can opent the data "remotely" without downloading a file.

Maps in Scientific Python¶

Making maps is a fundamental part of geoscience research. Maps differ from regular figures in the following principle ways:

• Maps require a projection of geographic coordinates on the 3D Earth to the 2D space of your figure.
• Maps often include extra decorations besides just our data (e.g. continents, country borders, etc.)
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