7.4.3.5. North Sea Currents Dataloader

North Atlantic Ocean currents are provided by the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory Coastal-Ocean Modelling System (POLCOMS). Their dataset was generated by the UK National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool.

Name in config: 'northsea_currents'

More information on where to download the data is available here

class meshiphi.dataloaders.vector.north_sea_current.NorthSeaCurrentDataLoader(bounds, params)

import_data(bounds)

Reads in data from a BSOSE Depth NetCDF file. Renames coordinates to ‘lat’, ‘long’, ‘time’, and renames variable to ‘uC, vC’

Parameters:

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

Returns:

North Sea currents dataset within limits of bounds. Dataset has coordinates ‘lat’, ‘long’, and variable ‘uC’, ‘vC’

Return type:

xr.Dataset