(a) Reading 10 min - Course Overview

(b) Reading 10 min - Course Materials - Acknowledgement of Sources

(c) Video 15 min - A Crash Introduction to Numerical Weather Prediction

(a) Video 6 min - Introduce MPAS-A

(b) Video 22 min - Advantages of variable-resolution unstructured mesh

(c) Video 24 min - Foundations of doing weather simulations in an unstructured mesh, Finite Volume Method

(d) Reading 1 hour - Theories

(a) Video 4 min - CPAS Visualization System

(b) Video 15 min - Python programming - High-level Packages

(a) Reading - Setting up an account in CPAS is a must for doing practices for the course

(b) Video 21 min - Lab 1: Start Jupyter Server & copy course material

(c) Video 6 min - Classwork: Using xarray and NetCDF files, xarray.open_dataset()

(d) Reading 20 min - Following written instructions - Lab 2: Automatic information extraction following CF convention

(a) Video 8 min - Chunking and parallel processing in xarray

(b) Reading 30 min - Following written instructions - Lab 3: Make multi-cores busy