7.3.3.4. Baltic Sea Ice Dataloader

Baltic sea ice concentration values are provided by the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI). From their webpage:

The operational sea ice service at FMI provides ice parameters over the Baltic Sea. The parameters are based on ice chart produced on daily basis during the Baltic Sea ice season and show the ice concentration in a 1 km grid.

Name in config: 'baltic_sic'

Data can be downloaded from here

class meshiphi.dataloaders.scalar.baltic_sea_ice.BalticSeaIceDataLoader(bounds, params)

import_data(bounds)

Reads in data from a Baltic 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:

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

Return type:

xr.Dataset