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+{
+ "cells": [
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "75688ac6-879d-4449-b73e-74f03a5f991f",
+   "metadata": {
+    "tags": [],
+    "user_expressions": []
+   },
+   "source": [
+    "<img src=\"https://xarray.dev/dataset-diagram-logo.png\"\n",
+    "     align=\"right\"\n",
+    "     width=\"30%\"/>\n",
+    "\n",
+    "# Geospatial Dataset Rechunking\n",
+    "\n",
+    "This is a national water model: https://registry.opendata.aws/nwm-archive/"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "5dd71599-465f-4c97-baaa-19d900d2a070",
+   "metadata": {
+    "user_expressions": []
+   },
+   "source": [
+    "## Set up cluster"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "24beda07-03c8-4a23-8600-80dbe10298ce",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "import dask\n",
+    "\n",
+    "dask.config.set({\n",
+    "    \"array.rechunk.method\": \"p2p\",\n",
+    "    \"optimization.fuse.active\": False,\n",
+    "    \"distributed.comm.retry.count\": 20,\n",
+    "    \"distributed.comm.timeouts.connect\": 120,\n",
+    "});"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "60b08a1c-d042-40f2-aaaa-e7665ca85d64",
+   "metadata": {
+    "tags": []
+   },
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "import coiled\n",
+    "\n",
+    "cluster = coiled.Cluster(\n",
+    "    n_workers=100,\n",
+    "    region=\"us-east-1\",\n",
+    ")\n",
+    "client = cluster.get_client()\n",
+    "client"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "8185966d-6659-482b-bcbb-826b8f30b1e3",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "## Load NWM data"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "e8b1749a-0d64-4278-823c-892120bf1a5b",
+   "metadata": {
+    "tags": []
+   },
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "import xarray as xr\n",
+    "\n",
+    "ds = xr.open_zarr(\n",
+    "    \"s3://noaa-nwm-retrospective-2-1-zarr-pds/rtout.zarr\",\n",
+    "    consolidated=True,\n",
+    ").drop_encoding()\n",
+    "ds"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "2147fc5c-60ee-4409-8c22-69c5e68a4c63",
+   "metadata": {
+    "tags": []
+   },
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "ds.nbytes / 1e12  # half-petabyte"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "0911fb96-7c08-4ca6-a35a-22e2a5a908cd",
+   "metadata": {
+    "tags": []
+   },
+   "source": [
+    "## Time-optimized rechunking\n",
+    "\n",
+    "Let's look at two months worth of data (~1 TB) and rechunk it to be optimized for time dimension selections."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "2a6fb91d-6a02-4afc-8d8a-ec3529f805f4",
+   "metadata": {
+    "tags": []
+   },
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "data = ds.zwattablrt.sel(time=slice(\"2020-01-01\", \"2020-03-01\"))   # 1 TB of data\n",
+    "data"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "8057c72c-7212-49fa-ad18-7aa346beb8cc",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "result = data.chunk({\"time\": 1, \"x\": \"auto\", \"y\": \"auto\"})\n",
+    "result"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "68c7e99e-dec7-4201-9344-2738e5f8bca3",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "result.to_zarr(\"s3://oss-scratch-space/nwm-time-optimized.zarr\", mode=\"w\")"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "57e3a741-ad69-4f54-9094-78586a59d29e",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "import fsspec\n",
+    "\n",
+    "fs = fsspec.filesystem(\"s3\")\n",
+    "fs.ls(\"s3://oss-scratch-space/nwm-time-optimized.zarr/\")"
+   ]
+  }
+ ],
+ "metadata": {
+  "kernelspec": {
+   "display_name": "Python 3 (ipykernel)",
+   "language": "python",
+   "name": "python3"
+  },
+  "language_info": {
+   "codemirror_mode": {
+    "name": "ipython",
+    "version": 3
+   },
+   "file_extension": ".py",
+   "mimetype": "text/x-python",
+   "name": "python",
+   "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
+   "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
+   "version": "3.11.9"
+  }
+ },
+ "nbformat": 4,
+ "nbformat_minor": 5
+}