ensaio.fetch_earth_geoid

ensaio.fetch_earth_geoid

ensaio.fetch_earth_geoid(version)[source]

Geoid height of the Earth at 10 arc-minute resolution

The grid is global with node spacing of 10 arc-minutes (grid-node registered) and stored in netCDF with CF-compliant metadata. The geoid height is derived from the EIGEN-6C4 spherical harmonic model of the Earth’s gravity field with respect to the WGS84 ellipsoid.

The horizontal datum is WGS84.

There are 1081 x 2161 grid points in total. Coordinates are longitude and latitude (geodetic).

Format: netCDF4 with zlib compression

Load with: xarray.load_dataarray (requires the netcdf4 library)

Original source: EIGEN-6C4 model

Original license: CC-BY

Pre-processing: Source code for preparation of the original dataset for redistribution in Ensaio

Versions:

Parameters

version (int) – The data version to fetch. See the available versions above.

Returns

fname (pathlib.Path) – Path to the downloaded file on disk.

Examples using ensaio.fetch_earth_geoid