session1_recap.md

Session 1 Recap

In Session 1 of the TECA tutorial, we:

1. saw an overview of TECA and the three ways that users generally interact with it:

• using TECA applications
• writing custom TECA applications in Python
• writing custom TECA algorithms + applications in Python

1. saw how TECA finds netCDF files: using regex within single folders
2. wrote a script to link netCDF files in a way compatible with TECA
3. constructed an MCF file to specify a netCDF dataset with multiple variables
4. used the teca_metadata_probe application to see properties of a dataset