Earth topography grid at 10 arc-minute resolution

Earth topography grid at 10 arc-minute resolution

The grid is grid-node registered and stored in netCDF with CF-compliant metadata. The values are derived from a spherical harmonic model of the ETOPO1 bedrock grid. Topography values are referenced to “sea level” and are positive upwards.

Original source: ETOPO1

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

import pygmt
import xarray as xr

import ensaio

Download and cache the data and return the path to it on disk.

Out:

/home/runner/work/_temp/cache/ensaio/v1/earth-topography-10arcmin.nc

Load the netCDF grid with xarray.

<xarray.DataArray 'topography' (latitude: 1081, longitude: 2161)>
array([[ 2742.,  2742.,  2742., ...,  2742.,  2742.,  2742.],
       [ 2768.,  2768.,  2768., ...,  2768.,  2768.,  2768.],
       [ 2822.,  2822.,  2821., ...,  2822.,  2822.,  2822.],
       ...,
       [-4243., -4244., -4245., ..., -4242., -4243., -4243.],
       [-4156., -4157., -4157., ..., -4156., -4156., -4156.],
       [-4237., -4237., -4237., ..., -4237., -4237., -4237.]],
      dtype=float32)
Coordinates:
  * longitude  (longitude) float64 -180.0 -179.8 -179.7 ... 179.7 179.8 180.0
  * latitude   (latitude) float64 -90.0 -89.83 -89.67 -89.5 ... 89.67 89.83 90.0
Attributes:
    Conventions:     CF-1.8
    title:           Topographic and bathymetric height of ETOPO1 (ice surfac...
    crs:             WGS84
    source:          Generated from a spherical harmonic model by the ICGEM C...
    license:         public domain
    references:      https://doi.org/10.7289/V5C8276M
    long_name:       topographic height above mean sea level
    standard_name:   height_above_mean_sea_level
    description:     height topography/bathymetry referenced to mean sea level
    units:           m
    actual_range:    [-10023.   6082.]
    icgem_metadata:  generating_institute: gfz-potsdam\ngenerating_date: 2021...


Make a PyGMT pseudo-color map of the grid in a Mollweide projection.

fig = pygmt.Figure()
fig.basemap(
    region="g",
    projection="W15c",
    frame=True,
)
fig.grdimage(data, cmap="etopo1", shading="+nt0.5")
fig.colorbar(frame='af+l"topography [m]"')
fig.coast(shorelines=True, resolution="c", area_thresh=1e4)
fig.show()
earth topography

Out:

<IPython.core.display.Image object>

Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 19.945 seconds)

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