This product is a series of Jupyter Notebook tutorials that are designed to help researchers preprocess data and statistically compare modelled and observational precipitation, temperature, and radiation data. The first notebook walks researchers through setting up their environment, important concepts, querying data sources, and filtering their data to the same temporal and spatial extents. The second notebook walks through performing zonal statistics on gridded datasets and statistically comparing the resulting data. The third notebook contains some visualizations for analyzing results.