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+#+TITLE: Master Thesis Martin Parker
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+* Todos
+- Create your own dev branch
+- Use Jupyter Notebooks:
+  - to read data grib files
+  - ekf files (import kendapy.ekf)
+  - plot map of observations
+  - check total increments
+  - plot vertical profiles
+  - plot gaspari cohn functions
+- get familiar with unstructured grid of the analysis data and associated grid-file
+- pai code can be found in pai folder; will not work out of the box with
+  provided data