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Alex Gohm has a great app to visualize mountain waves in Matlab (http://moe.met.fsu.edu/~rhart/mtnwave.html). The idea is to translate this code to python and make it run as a Holoviz/Bokeh app.

See for example https://github.com/pat-schmitt/glacier_simulator for an advanced template on how such an app could look like. Here is a screenshot of @pat-schmitt 's app:

What will we need?

Some Matlab skills. Some mountain wave skills.

Holoviz and Bokeh to create the app.

Who can help?

Brigitta did some serious work last year. Maybe she'll be interested in sharing / continuing it this year.

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https://cluster.klima.uni-bremen.de/~github/crossval/index.html

This website tracks the performance of the OGGM mass balance calibration across multiple model versions. This allows us to easily see the effects of certain model changes on the mass balance parametrisation of OGGM.

It works but I have some issues with it:

• Building the website is a bit fragile. It broke a couple of times because it couldn't handle changes in the OGGM versioning scheme.
• Most model changes do not affect the mass balance results. There should only be new plots/pages if significant changes occur. All versions in between could be listed at some place.
• Plots could be interactive
• Results of every version are stored as pickle file. Convenient but prone to errors in the future.

What will we need?

Right now everything is done within this repository:
https://github.com/OGGM/mb_crossval

It's not necessary to have OGGM knowledge as this will not really touch model specific parts but rather processing of the data, making nice plots and building a simple website.

I can also provide some of the existing data pickles to simulate results from different model versions. If a new data storage format is chosen, these old files must/should probably be translated anyway.

Who can help?

I wrote the existing repo. But there are people with way more experience in building websites or producing nice plots.

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OGGM-Edu is a platform to learn about glaciers. You can use interactive notebooks to let glaciers grow and shrink. We already have 8 notebooks - why not adding a new one?

What will we need?

OGGM for the glaciers, Jupyter Notebooks for the code.

Who can help?

@fmaussion, @dfrisinghelli and @zschirmeister get help you to get started.

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I have hands on excellent data-assimilation toy models from my recent trainings at Uni Reading and ECMWF -> they could be made pretty!

What will we need?

The code (that I can share) and some interest for DA

Who can help?

@fmaussion has the tools.

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We have an AWS in Peru (https://agroclim-huaraz.info/) recording half-hourly meteo data and taking several pictures a day of growing plants.
The project idea is to make an animation of these images (displaying plant growth in a full year) together with precipitation and soil moisture data.

What will we need?

The data, and any tool you would like to use! (in python, matplotlib would do the job)

Who can help?

@fmaussion has the data

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OGGM uses "vanilla" multiprocessing from python. By using dask instead, we could make use of the very powerful features of dask scheduling, load visualization, and make the transition to the cloud. See this OEP for context.

What will we need?

Some interest for dask and OGGM.

Who can help?

@fmaussion and @TimoRoth might help.

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This project is probably better tackled alone.

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Conveying uncertainty in probabilistic forecasts is hard. Can YOU find the best plot to explain ensemble forecasts to your GrandPa?

What will we need?

Find inspiration from professional weather apps and do it better. That's all

Who can help?

@retostauffer certainly put some thought into this.

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We used to have online interactive displays of live meteorological data on the ACINN website. Now that we are on the uni layout, these plots are gone!

They were created with a tool called "highcharts", which is great but not very easy to learn for us scientists. Nowadays we have Holoviz and Bokeh to create awesome visualizations using python alone.

The idea is to write a script which uses the data live feed to create html charts that can then be linked from any website!

What will we need?

Holoviz and Bokeh to create the html plots.

See https://fabienmaussion.info/scientific_programming/html/22-Assignment-08.html to get you started with the live data (the url has changed but it still works - I can give you the new url)

Who can help?

@pat-schmitt and @zschirmeister are our ACINN resident experts on Bokeh and Holoviz.

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There are plenty of awesome twitter bots around:

• Sentinel Bot https://twitter.com/Sentinel2Bot
• Landsat Bot https://twitter.com/LandsatBot
• Daily Glacier Bot: https://twitter.com/dailyglacier
• Hurricane Bot: https://twitter.com/TheHurricaneBot
• ...

Can we do one ourselves? Some ideas:

• tweeting the daily weather in Innsbruck
• tweeting glacier change on demand, i.e. when @ tagged

What will we need?

https://twitter.com/Sentinel2Bot as template. Some good knowledge of api dev

Who can help?

I'm not sure, but we can learn!

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describe your idea here

What will we need?

list the tools or knowledge needed here

Who can help?

tel us who has expertise here

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You probably have some code you want to share to others, but wonder how?

ReadTheDocs and MyBinder are modern ways to document and share your code. Use them on your project and get tons of likes!

See http://edu.oggm.org for an example of using both tools.

What will we need?

• some code you would like to document
• ReadTheDocs for online docs
• MyBinder for interaction!

Who can help?

@fmaussion and @matthiasdusch can help set-up the tools.

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This project can be tackled alone or in team!

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