Make final improvements to example for PO.DAAC Drive

nasa · Oct 23, 2018 · 986e8f7 · 986e8f7
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diff --git a/examples/Using podaacpy to interact with PO.DAAC Drive.ipynb b/examples/Using podaacpy to interact with PO.DAAC Drive.ipynb
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     "# In this example we replicate the following workflow \n",
-    "# * Define time period\n",
-    "# * Define spatial bounding box\n",
-    "# * Extract all (or just wind speed) variables from available granules\n",
-    "# * Aggregate into single netCDF output file\n",
-    "# * View aggregation in the Panoply data viewer\n",
+    "# * Define temporal and spatial characteristics of a given event \n",
+    "#     e.g. Hurricane Florence which was a very recent major hurricane \n",
+    "#     to impact Southeastern US\n",
+    "# * Search for all available (whole orbit) granules for that event and \n",
+    "#    download them from PO.DAAC Drive to the local machine\n",
+    "# * View files in the Panoply data viewer\n",
+    "#    more information on Panoply can be found at\n",
+    "#    https://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/panoply/\n",
+    "# * Streamline the above data acquisition task using PO.DAAC's\n",
+    "#    Level 2 Subsetting software to download a regional data subset for the\n",
+    "#    event at the given space and time.\n",
+    "# * Finally, view the subsetted granule again in Panoply\n",
     "\n",
     "# In this example we has chosen the MetOp-A ASCAT Level 2 Ocean \n",
     "# Surface Wind Vectors Optimized for Coastal Ocean collection as our \n",
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@@ -101,7 +108,8 @@
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-    "# Let's discover PO.DAAC Wind data relating to Hurricane Florence \n",
+    "# Let's discover PO.DAAC Wind data relating to Hurricane Florence, which\n",
+    "#  was a very recent major hurricane to impact Southeastern US\n",
     "#    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Florence\n",
     "# Using specific parameters to confine the discovery space, we opt for the full \n",
     "# metadata record in atom format\n",
@@ -148,7 +156,7 @@
     "                          sort_by='timeAsc',\n",
     "                          items_per_page='400',\n",
     "                          format='atom',\n",
-    "                          pretty='true')\n",
+    "                          pretty='True')\n",
     "#print(result)\n",
     "searchStr = 'totalResults'\n",
     "numResultsStr = [ str(i) for i in result.strip().split() if searchStr in i ]\n",
@@ -218,8 +226,7 @@
     "from podaac import l2ss as l2ss\n",
     "l = l2ss.L2SS()\n",
     "granule_id = 'ascat_20180913_134800_metopa_61756_eps_o_coa_2401_ovw.l2.nc'\n",
-    "query = \n",
-    "    {\n",
+    "query = {\n",
     "        \"email\": \"your_email@here.com\",\n",
     "        \"query\":\n",
     "        [\n",