The Australian Open Radar Science School

Welcome to the Australian Open Science School. To be held for the first time on the 13th of November 2018 at Monash University.

This School, open to all and offered free of charge is motivated by:

• The opening of the Australian radar archive to the public for scientific use.
• The Dual polarimetric upgrade of the Australian radar network.
• The explosion in open source packages for working with radar data.
• The Third Australian Radar workshop to be held following the School.

This workshop will be "Bring Your Own Device". Users should have the ability to configure and load software specifically the Anaconda Python Distribution. A beginners level of Python will optimize the knowledge gained from the course.

The workshop will be held at the Department of Civil Engineering Conference Room, Room 110A, 23 College Walk, Monash Clayton campus.

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Registration closed. 24 Registered!

Topics Covered

• Accessing the Australian Radar Archive.
• Introduction and accessing the C-POL Archive and conditions of use.
• Python 101 (plus a half).
• Scientific Python and the Python array object.
• Plotting in Python. Introduction to Cartopy.
• The Python ARM Radar Toolkit, Py-ART.
• Australian Dual Polarimetric case studies.

Pre School Instructions

You need to turn up with a working Anaconda installation with out Py-ART environment installed. Click here to for instructions

Agenda

• 9:30 to 9:40 Settling, powering up laptops etc.
• 9:40 to 10:00 Open Radar Science, Py-ART and this course - Scott Collis
• 10:00 to 10:20 An introduction to Jupyter and Jupyter Notebooks - Robert Jackson
• 10:20 to 10:40 An introduction to Python - Robert Jackson
• 10:40 to 11:00 Break
• 11:00 to 11:20 An Introduction to the Scientific Python Stack - Robert Jackson
• 11:20 to 11:40 Matplotlib and Cartopy - Robert Jackson
• 11:40 to 12:00 Reading and plotting files using Py-ART - Scott Collis
• 12:00 to 12:30 A look under the hood: Py-ART's data model - Scott Collis
• 12:30 to 1:30 Lunch
• 1:30 to 2:00 Obtaining, reading and displaying Australian Radar Data - Joshua Soderholm
• 2:00 to 3:00 Dual polarimetric science by example, Aussie dual pol data - Joshua Soderholm
• 3:00 to 3:30 Break
• 3:30 to 4:30 Radar Processing by example, the CPOL data set - Valentin Louf
• 4:30 to 5:00 Open questions and ad-hoc demos

Your Instructors

Scott Collis, Atmospheric Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory.

Joshua Soderholm, Postdoctoral Scientist, Monash University

Valentin Louf, Postdoctoral Scientist, Monash University

Robert Jackson, Postdoctoral Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory.