From @tommylees112 on Fri Jul 12 2019 10:44:35 GMT+0000 (UTC)
Hi all,
I recently met @jacobtomlinson at a hackathon in London, with the Software Underground (SWUNG) group. He introduced us to the Pangeo community and ecosystem and mentioned that introducing myself on here might be the best way to be involved. I am a PhD student at Oxford looking at drought monitoring and prediction in East Africa.
I am a frequent user of xarray and have recently been working on a project to combine seasonal forecast models with machine learning methods to better predict drought. The project (repo here) is part of the ECMWF Summer of Weather Code and I am working with my collaborator and friend @gabrieltseng. I am already so grateful for people’s help with my questions on StackOverflow and GitHub.
I am particularly interested in using Dask and the compute resources / datasets that you guys have collected. This would really help working with datasets and processes that I struggle to fit into my laptop’s memory!
The binder repositories are such a great help and I am super grateful for the time you have spent sharing these tools and resources with the wider geoscientific community. Something that I think would be interesting would be to explore how meterological drought indices (SPI / SPEI) change in the future CMIP6 model scenarios under different global warming conditions (may have already been done!).
Thanks again for setting up this group! Let me know how I can get involved and if there’s anything that sounds interesting to you!
Kind Regards
Tommy
Copied from original issue: https://github.com/pangeo-data/pangeo/issues/668
From @mrocklin on Fri Jul 12 2019 16:10:06 GMT+0000 (UTC)
cc’ing @alimanfoo , just due to geographic proximity
On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 5:44 AM Tommy Lees notifications@github.com wrote:
Hi all,
I recently met @jacobtomlinson https://github.com/jacobtomlinson at a
hackathon in London, with the Software Underground (SWUNG)
https://softwareunderground.org/ group. He introduced us to the Pangeo
community and ecosystem and mentioned that introducing myself on here might
be the best way to be involved. I am a PhD student at Oxford looking at
drought monitoring and prediction in East Africa.
I am a frequent user of xarray and have recently been working on a project
to combine seasonal forecast models with machine learning methods to better
predict drought. The project (repo here
https://github.com/esowc/ml_drought) is part of the ECMWF Summer of
Weather Code
https://www.ecmwf.int/en/learning/workshops/ecmwf-summer-weather-code-2019
and I am working with my collaborator and friend @gabrieltseng
https://github.com/gabrieltseng. I am already so grateful for people’s
help with my questions on StackOverflow and GitHub.
I am particularly interested in using Dask and the compute resources /
datasets that you guys have collected. This would really help working with
datasets and processes that I struggle to fit into my laptop’s memory!
The binder repositories are such a great help and I am super grateful for
the time you have spent sharing these tools and resources with the wider
geoscientific community. Something that I think would be interesting would
be to explore how meterological drought indices (SPI / SPEI) change in the
future CMIP6 model scenarios under different global warming conditions (may
have already been done!).
Thanks again for setting up this group! Let me know how I can get involved
and if there’s anything that sounds interesting to you!
Kind Regards
Tommy
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From @tommylees112 on Tue Jul 16 2019 07:45:02 GMT+0000 (UTC)
Thankyou @mrocklin ! @alimanfoo Would love to catch up in Oxford if possible! The work on Zarr looks super interesting!
Thanks guys 
From @alimanfoo on Tue Jul 16 2019 11:37:27 GMT+0000 (UTC)
Hi Tommy, sounds like a cool project, I’m at the Big Data Institute on the
old road campus, let me know if you’d like to swing by some time. I don’t
know much about xarray but do have some experience with dask.
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Thankyou @mrocklin https://github.com/mrocklin ! @alimanfoo
https://github.com/alimanfoo Would love to catch up in Oxford if
possible! The work on Zarr looks super interesting!
Thanks guys 
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