compute_OPT_ICESat_GLA12.py

• Calculates radial ocean pole tide displacements for correcting ICESat/GLAS L2 GLA12 Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheet elevation data following IERS Convention (2010) guidelines

• http://maia.usno.navy.mil/conventions/2010officialinfo.php

• http://maia.usno.navy.mil/conventions/chapter7.php

• ftp://tai.bipm.org/iers/conv2010/chapter7/opoleloadcoefcmcor.txt.gz

Source code

usage: compute_OPT_ICESat_GLA12.py [-h] [--output-directory OUTPUT_DIRECTORY]
                                   [--convention {2003,2010,2015,2018}]
                                   [--interpolate METHOD] [--verbose]
                                   [--mode MODE]
                                   infile [infile ...]

Positional Arguments

infile

ICESat GLA12 file to run

Named Arguments

--output-directory, -O

Output data directory

--convention, -c

Possible choices: 2003, 2010, 2015, 2018

IERS mean or secular pole convention

--interpolate, -I

Possible choices: spline, linear, nearest

Spatial interpolation method

--verbose, -V

Output information about each created file

--mode, -M

Permission mode of directories and files created