7.3.3.13. GEBCO Dataloader

The General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) is a publicly available bathymetric chart of the Earth’s oceans. It is a common resource used by ocean scientists, amongst others.

Name in config: 'gebco'

Data can be downloaded from here

class meshiphi.dataloaders.scalar.gebco.GEBCODataLoader(bounds, params)

import_data(bounds)

Reads in data from GEBCO NetCDF files. Renames coordinates to ‘lat’ and ‘long’.

Parameters:

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

Returns:

GEBCO dataset within limits of bounds. Dataset has coordinates ‘lat’, ‘long’, and variable ‘elevation’

Return type:

xr.Dataset