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Revise AIFS ENS notebook examples for diversity and visual impact#35

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Follow-up to #34. Replaces the example mix to improve visual impact and avoid overlap with other notebooks.

Changes

  • First time series → Ulaanbaatar 2 m temperature. Replaces precipitation at Hilo. Deep-winter forecast showing a sharp warm-up, a plunge back to -25 °C, and a wide range of late-forecast outcomes (-32 °C to -9 °C by day 10). A new city not used in other notebooks.
  • Removed the redundant "control member highlighted" cleaner-view plot.
  • Quantile bands → Buenos Aires. Moves from Berlin and brings a Southern Hemisphere example with Pampas cold-front passages widening and narrowing the bands.
  • Probability map → Hurricane Erin (Aug 2025). Storm Nils was already in the DWD notebook, and the 10 m wind threshold made the SW France coastline look like a data artifact. Erin is fully offshore and shows a clean ensemble cone of tropical-storm-force wind probability at a 72 h lead.
  • Animation → ensemble-mean downward shortwave radiation. Picked specifically because it starts out sharp (crisp cloud-shadow patterns) and visibly blurs over the 10-day forecast as members diverge on cloud position, while the day/night terminator stays sharp.
  • Closing section renamed to "A few ideas to explore." Dropped the incorrect "same 0.25° grid as IFS ENS" claim.

File size: 5.3 MB → 1.6 MB.

Test plan

  • uv run .internal/run_notebooks.py ecmwf-aifs-ens-forecast.ipynb runs clean
  • Visual review of plots and narrative

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aldenks and others added 3 commits May 15, 2026 12:39
- First time series: 2 m temperature at Ulaanbaatar (deep-winter
  warm-up, plunge, then a wide spread by day 10), replacing the Hilo
  precipitation example.
- Drop the redundant "control highlighted" cleaner-view plot.
- Quantile bands: move from Berlin to Buenos Aires (Pampas cold
  fronts) for a Southern Hemisphere example.
- Probability map: switch from Storm Nils (already covered in the
  DWD notebook, and 10 m wind made the SW France coastline look like
  a data artifact) to Hurricane Erin (Aug 2025) — fully offshore, a
  clear ensemble track "cone."
- Animation: ensemble-mean downward shortwave radiation over Europe,
  showing cloud features blur as members diverge while the day/night
  terminator stays sharp.
- Drop the incorrect "same grid as IFS ENS" claim and rename the
  closing section to "A few ideas to explore."

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Open the dataset via dynamical_catalog.open now that AIFS ENS is
  registered in the STAC catalog. Drops the explicit icechunk +
  anonymous S3 boilerplate.
- Animation: switch from downward shortwave to downward longwave
  radiation. Without the day/night terminator dominating the field,
  the smoothing-with-lead-time effect is cleaner — early frames show
  sharp cloud-driven contrast, later frames blur as members place
  clouds in different locations.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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