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.

Assignment 6: Pandas Groupby with Hurricane Data¶

Import pandas and matplotlib

Pandas: Groupby¶

groupby is an amazingly powerful function in pandas. But it is also complicated to use and understand. The point of this lesson is to make you feel confident in using groupby and its cousins, resample and rolling.

These notes are loosely based on the Pandas GroupBy Documentation.

Imports:

Pandas¶

Pandas is a an open source library providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools. Pandas is particularly suited to the analysis of tabular data, i.e. data that can can go into a table. In other words, if you can imagine the data in an Excel spreadsheet, then Pandas is the tool for the job.