Package to subsample World Ocean Atlas climatology.
Project description
Package to subsample, or interpolate, World Ocean Atlas climatology to any coordinates.
This package started with functions to obtain climatological values to compare with measured data, allowing a quality control check by comparison. It hence needed to work for any coordinates requested. I recently split these functionalities from CoTeDe into this standalone package to allow more people to use it for other purposes.
Free software: 3-clause BSD style license - see LICENSE.rst
Documentation: https://pyWOA.readthedocs.org.
Features
If the WOA database files are not localy available, download it.
Extract, or interpolate if necessary, climatologic data on requested coordinates;
Can request a single point, a profile or a section;
Ready to handle -180 to 180 or 0 to 360 coordinate system;
Quick howto use
Inside python:
from pyWOA import WOA
db = WOA()
- To get temperature at one point:
t = db[‘TEMP’].extract(var=’t_mn’, doy=136.875, depth=0, lat=17.5, lon=-37.5)
- To get one profile of salinity:
t = db[‘PSAL’].extract(var=’t_mn’, doy=136.875, depth=[0, 10, 15, 18], lat=17.5, lon=-37.5)
- To get a full depth section of temperature:
t = db[‘TEMP’].extract(var=’t_mn’, doy=136.875, lat=17.5, lon=[-39, -37.5, -35])
History
0.1.0 (2015-02-09)
Generalized interpolator. Extract climatology for point, profile or section.
0.0.1 (2015-12-13)
First release on PyPI. Extracted from CoTeDe to be a standalone package.
pre-released (~2006)
The first version was developed in support to quality control thermosalinographs at NOAA. It was later injected inside CoTeDe.
