pysiral.auxdata.mdt

module for Mean Dynamic Topography datasets.

Important Note:

All mdt data handlers must be subclasses of pysiral.auxdata.AuxdataBaseClass in order to work for the Level-2 Processor. If the auxiliary class is based on a static dataset, this should be parsed in __init__.

Please review the variables and properties in the parent class, as well as the correspodning config and support classes for grid track interpolation in the pysiral.auxdata module for additional guidance.

The only other hard requirements is the presence of on specific method in order to be a valid subclass of AuxdataBaseClass:

get_l2_track_vars(l2)

This method will be called during the Level-2 processor. The argument is the Level-2 data object and the purpose of the method is to compute the auxilary variable(s) and associated uncertainty. These variable need to be registered using the register_auxvar(id, name, value, uncertainty) method of the base class. All MDT subclasses need to register at minimum the following variable:

mean dynamic topography (relative to MSS):

id: mdt name: mean_dynamic_topography

e.g., this code line is mandatory for get_l2_track_vars (uncertainty can be None):

# Register Variables self.register_auxvar(“mdt”, “mean_dynamic_topography”, value, uncertainty)

Attributes

__author__

Classes

DTUMDTGrid

Parsing Routine for DTU 1/8th degree mean dynamic topography grid

Module Contents

pysiral.auxdata.mdt.__author__ = 'Stefan Hendricks <stefan.hendricks@awi.de>'
class pysiral.auxdata.mdt.DTUMDTGrid(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: pysiral.auxdata.AuxdataBaseClass

Parsing Routine for DTU 1/8th degree mean dynamic topography grid

longitude
latitude
get_l2_track_vars(l2)

This method raises a NotImplementedError if it is not overwritten by child class :return: