A Python repository that maps irregular hydrographic observations on a regular gridded map. Pretty useful for an oceanographer.
VARIABLES FOR MAPPING:
- Dynamic Height (DH)
- Freshwater Content (FWC)[1]
CASE 1: Central Arctic ocean mapping from UDASH[2] hydrographic observations to show large scale ocean circulation patterns - Beaufort Gyre and Transpolar Drift
CASE 2: Antarctic/Southern ocean mapping from Argo float measurements[3] to show the Weddell and Ross Gyre.
[1] Rabe, B., Karcher, M., Schauer, U., Toole, J. M., Krishfield, R.A., Pisarev, S., Kauker, F., Gerdes, R., and Kikuchi, T.: An assessment of arctic ocean freshwater content changes from the 1990s to the 2006–2008 period, Deep-Sea Res. Pt. I, 58, 173–185, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2010.12.002, 2011.
[2] Behrendt, A., Sumata, H., Rabe, B., and Schauer, U.: UDASH – Unified Database for Arctic and Subarctic Hydrography, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 1119–1138, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1119-2018, 2018.
[3] Reeve, K. A., Boebel, O., Kanzow, T., Strass, V., Rohardt, G., and Fahrbach, E.: A gridded data set of upper-ocean hydrographic properties in the Weddell Gyre obtained by objective mapping of Argo float measurements, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 8, 15–40, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-15-2016, 2016.