CMIP Data - User Training Material

This page provides access to a range of training material that will assist researchers to access and use the CMIP data collections and tools provided through the Climate Science virtual research environment at NCI.

Your feedback on the training modules and ideas for new materials is welcome. Please send to help@nci.org.au or Jingbo.Wang@anu.edu.au

Pangeo environment setup for HPC

NCI has recently made Pangeo available on Raijin and has developed a tutorial on how to Setup for Pangeo Environment on Raijin. In particular, this module provides instructions on submitting and monitoring a multi-node Pangeo job to Raijin. Your feedback is welcome. Please send to help@nci.org.au or Jingbo.Wang@anu.edu.au if you have any questions about Pangeo. Note that Pangeo will also be available on Gadi in the near future.

Training courses

AMOS NCI data training June 2019, Darwin

This is a half-day training course, which mainly covers the following topics:

Preparation for the course - Virtual Desktop Interface
Search for Data - introduction to NCI's data catalogue
Climate data collection
CMIP6 update
Data Access tools: CLEF, ncview, ncdump, XArray
Other tools and packages: THREDDS, Panoply and Paraview

Training slides and examples are accessible via google drive (Google login not required. Please contact help@nci.org.au if you have any issues accessing or using these modules).

ALCS NCI data training Nov 2019, Canberra

This was a full day training course, providing introductory and advanced level modules:

Introductory course:

Overview of NCI’s datasets and services
Setting up python environment
How to access datasets - THREDDS and GSKY examples

Advanced course:

Introduction to data formats and performances
How to set up Pangeo environment
Programmatic access GSKY examples