clouddrift.datasets.spotters#
- clouddrift.datasets.spotters(decode_times: bool = True) Dataset[source]#
Returns the Sofar Ocean Spotter drifters ragged array dataset as an Xarray dataset.
The data is accessed from a zarr archive hosted on a public AWS S3 bucket accessible at https://sofar-spotter-archive.s3.amazonaws.com/spotter_data_bulk_zarr.
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
Sofar ocean floats dataset as a ragged array
Examples#
>>> from clouddrift.datasets import spotters >>> ds = spotters() >>> ds <xarray.Dataset> Dimensions: (index: 6390651, trajectory: 871) Coordinates: time (index) datetime64[ns] ... * trajectory (trajectory) object 'SPOT-010001' ... 'SPOT-1975' Dimensions without coordinates: index Data variables: latitude (index) float64 ... longitude (index) float64 ... meanDirection (index) float64 ... meanDirectionalSpread (index) float64 ... meanPeriod (index) float64 ... peakDirection (index) float64 ... peakDirectionalSpread (index) float64 ... peakPeriod (index) float64 ... rowsize (trajectory) int64 ... significantWaveHeight (index) float64 ... Attributes: author: Isabel A. Houghton creation_date: 2023-10-18 00:43:55.333537 email: isabel.houghton@sofarocean.com institution: Sofar Ocean references: https://content.sofarocean.com/hubfs/Spotter%20product%20... source: Spotter wave buoy title: Sofar Spotter Data Archive - Bulk Wave Parameters