initial botany_dales document

[fjansson]

Draft pull request for the botany dataset.

• [x] introduction to botany experiment (what has been done, further resources)
• [x] example on how to open a botany experiment
• [x] example on how to read experiment parameters
• [x] describe which experiments (resolution, size, etc.) are available

[observingClouds]

With https://github.com/eurec4a/eurec4a-intake/pull/99 merged, this notebook works as well. I just re-run your PR in my own fork successfully: https://github.com/observingClouds/how_to_eurec4a/actions/runs/2757007834

I edited the header to mark the things that still need to be addressed before we can merge this.

[martinjanssens]

@observingClouds @fjansson I've had an initial go at this, see https://github.com/martinjanssens/how_to_eurec4a/tree/botany. It could perhaps use a little more background information, we should eventually include our data set paper and the appropriate reference and we might consider waiting to merge this until after we've merged https://github.com/eurec4a/eurec4a-intake/pull/128, as I'm still referring to Hauke's private branch of eurec4a-intake to get the most up-to-date catalog entries here. I.e. this:

from intake import open_catalog
url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/observingClouds/eurec4a-intake/botany/catalog.yml"
cat = open_catalog(url)

Should eventually just be this:

import eurec4a
cat = eurec4a.get_intake_catalog()

[observingClouds]

@martinjanssens thanks for taking this further! I just compiled the book locally. It looks good so far. Could you please add your branch to this branch (fjansson/how_to_eurec4a) or merge this one into yours and create a new PR so that we can discuss the details alongside the code?

[martinjanssens]

Agreed, done!

[martinjanssens]

@observingClouds thanks for looking at this so quickly! I've tried to address all your comments (all of which I agree with!) in 87304fc. In particular I've added an example of how to plot something like cloud fraction profiles as a function of a varied parameter, here surface wind. Let me know what you think (@fjansson you too of course!).

[observingClouds]

@martinjanssens we are getting closer to the finish line! Could you please update this PR now that the intake catalog contains the botany dataset?

[martinjanssens]

Thanks a lot to you, Hauke!