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+# Initial draft snippet specs
+
+## Authentication
+
+### Requirements
+
+- include generic inline comments describing code
+- print a successful authentication
+
+### Template
+```python
+if earthaccess.login(persist=True).authenticated:
+    print("Authentication Completed")
+```
+
+## Spatiotemporal Search
+
+### Requirements
+
+- simple spatial bounding box for any collection that isn't global
+- simple temporal range within the collections' time range
+- use most recent granule?
+
+### Template
+```python
+granules = earthaccess.search_data(
+    doi="<collection doi>",
+    temporal=("<start date>", "<end date>"),
+    bounding_box=[<coordinates of bounding box>]
+)
+print(f"Spatiotemporal search retrieved {len(granules)} granule(s)")
+```
+
+## Data Access
+
+- variable subsetting - pick out a meaningful variable
+- show a mean/median, comment explaining lacking of quality filtering
+
+## Dataset Structure Navigation
+-
+
+## Validation (external to snippet)
+
+- snippet runs to completion
+- snippet produces real numbers (stored in a variable named `data`)
+  - numeric check is performed on unmasked/unfiltered data (to avoid depending on any science thresholds or analytic manipulations)
+
+# Out of scope:
+
+- Visualization or plotting