clouddrift.datasets.gdp6h#
- clouddrift.datasets.gdp6h(decode_times: bool = True) Dataset [source]#
Returns the NOAA Global Drifter Program (GDP) 6-hourly dataset as a ragged array Xarray dataset.
The data is accessed from zarr archive hosted on a public AWS S3 bucket accessible at s3://noaa-oar-hourly-gdp-pds/experimental/. Original data source from NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) accessible at https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/gdp/index.php.
This returns the December 2024 version of the dataset including data from 1979-02-15:00:00:00Z to 2025-01-20:00:00:00Z.
Parameters#
- decode_timesbool, optional
If True, decode the time coordinate into a datetime object. If False, the time coordinate will be an int64 or float64 array of increments since the origin time indicated in the units attribute. Default is True.
Returns#
- xarray.Dataset
6-hourly GDP dataset as a ragged array
Examples#
>>> from clouddrift.datasets import gdp6h >>> ds = gdp6h() >>> ds <xarray.Dataset> Size: 2GB Dimensions: (traj: 28341, obs: 48044996) Coordinates: id (traj) int64 227kB ... time (obs) datetime64[ns] 384MB ... Dimensions without coordinates: traj, obs Data variables: (12/48) BuoyTypeManufacturer (traj) <U1 113kB ... BuoyTypeSensorArray (traj) <U10 1MB ... CurrentProgram (traj) float64 227kB ... DeployingCountry (traj) <U14 2MB ... DeployingShip (traj) <U20 2MB ... DeploymentComments (traj) <U20 2MB ... ... ... start_lon (traj) float32 113kB ... temp (obs) float32 192MB ... typebuoy (traj) |S10 283kB ... typedeath (traj) int8 28kB ... ve (obs) float32 192MB ... vn (obs) float32 192MB ... Attributes: (12/18) Conventions: CF-1.6 acknowledgement: Lumpkin, Rick; Centurioni, Luca (2019). NOAA Global... contributor_name: NOAA Global Drifter Program contributor_role: Data Acquisition Center date_created: 2025-07-03T13:33:40.973074 doi: 10.25921/7ntx-z961 ... ... publisher_name: GDP Drifter DAC publisher_url: https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/gdp summary: Global Drifter Program six-hourly data time_coverage_end: 2024-08-16:12:00:00Z time_coverage_start: 1979-02-15:00:00:00Z title: Global Drifter Program drifting buoy collection
See Also#