The following is a selection of wisdom imparted from Emily to a rookie reviewer. When reviewing a paper keep the following in mind: Make sure to give a summary paragraph for the editor. This should include an overview of what the paper does and what you learned. It should also include a recommendation e.g. publish after […]

Welcome to the Fischer group internal site! We can treat this group like a wiki page. This is a good place to document things that need to be shared with the group (instrument checksheets, field campaign logistics, how to run the latest version of GEOS-Chem, etc. The basic idea is to use this website as an alternative […]

The EPA air quality data set is massive. It may require working with data.frames on the order of 30gb. I have been looking into R literature discussing the practical limitations of standard computations in R and how to effectively work with “big data.” This post may eventually become a nice tutorial but for now it […]

Installing system libraries The absolute easiest way to install NetCDF on a mac requires Macports. Macports is a software package designed to make installing and compiling software easy. Macports .pkg and installation instructions are available here. Once Macports is installed building and installing NetCDF libraries is a one step job. sudo port install netcdf More […]