The Landlab Tutorials provide examples of Landlab core concepts and component introductions. Tutorials exist as interactive Jupyter notebooks that contain alternating cells of computer code and text that explain the code. In addition to Landlab Tutorials that exemplify Landlab, notebooks intended to teach and learn surface dynamics are the Landlab Teaching Tutorials.
Landlab Notebooks can be accessed online with the following link: Binder. Here the notebooks are provided within a binder online environment that includes Landlab.
The welcome page on Binder provides onward links to most of our tutorials. If you’re a newbie you might want to skip directly to a recommended syllabus for learning Landlab here.
How you installed Landlab determines the steps to launch notebooks that use a copy of Landlab on your computer.
If you installed using a prepackaged binary, the most common method, the notebooks can be run in a conda environment. These instructions describe how to create a conda environment for the notebooks.
Once the conda environment has been created, it must be activated and then the notebooks can be launched:
$ conda activate landlab_notebooks
$ jupyter notebook notebooks/welcome.ipynb
If you installed using the
developer install instructions, the tutorials exist
on your computer within the notebooks folder of your local Landlab clone.
If you installed Landlab within an environment, the environment must be activated and then the notebooks can be launched. The following code assumes that the environment name is landlab_dev:
$ conda activate landlab_dev
$ jupyter notebook notebooks/welcome.ipynb
If you write a Landlab Tutorial or Gist, please contribute it via a pull request to the master branch of the Landlab repository. See this page about contributing to Landlab, and reach out for help when needed.
For more examples and tutorials, see also our Clinics & workshops page.