7.3.3.3. BSOSE Sea Ice Dataloader

B-SOSE (Biogeochemical Southern Ocean State Estimate solution) provide a publicly available dataset that hosts (amongst other products) sea ice concentration of the southern ocean. It is an extension of the SOSE project led by Mazloff at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

From their website:

The Southern Ocean State Estimate (SOSE) is a model-generated best fit to Southern Ocean observations. As such, it provides a quantitatively useful climatology of the mean-state of the Southern Ocean.

Name in config: 'bsose_sic'

Data can be downloaded from here

Note: This dataloader may not work as is for new data downloaded, it has been internally collated into a more easily ingestable format.

class meshiphi.dataloaders.scalar.bsose_sea_ice.BSOSESeaIceDataLoader(bounds, params)

import_data(bounds)

Reads in data from a BSOSE Sea Ice NetCDF file. Renames coordinates to ‘lat’ and ‘long’, and renames variable to ‘SIC’

Parameters:

bounds (Boundary) – Initial boundary to limit the dataset to

Returns:

BSOSE Sea Ice dataset within limits of bounds. Dataset has coordinates ‘lat’, ‘long’, and variable ‘SIC’

Return type:

xr.Dataset

Raises:

ValueError – If units specified in config, and value not ‘fraction’ or ‘percentage’