Bedmap2

Bedmap2 is a suite of gridded products describing surface elevation, ice-thickness, the sea floor and subglacial bed elevation of the Antarctic south of 60°S [BEDMAP2]. Each dataset is projected in Antarctic Polar Stereographic projection, latitude of true scale -71 degrees south, datum WGS84. All heights are in metres relative to sea level as defined by the g104c geoid. The datasets are downloaded as tiff files and loaded into a xarray.Dataset object.

../_images/sphx_glr_bedmap2_001.png

Out:

<xarray.Dataset>
Dimensions:    (x: 6667, y: 6667)
Coordinates:
  * y          (y) float64 3.333e+06 3.332e+06 ... -3.332e+06 -3.333e+06
  * x          (x) float64 -3.333e+06 -3.332e+06 ... 3.332e+06 3.333e+06
Data variables:
    thickness  (y, x) float64 nan nan nan nan nan nan ... nan nan nan nan nan
Attributes:
    title:                Bedmap2
    projection:           Antarctic Polar Stereographic
    true_scale_latitude:  -71
    datum:                WGS84
    EPSG:                 3031
    doi:                  10.5194/tc-7-375-2013

import rockhound as rh
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import cmocean

# Load the ice thickness grid
bedmap = rh.fetch_bedmap2(datasets=["thickness"])
print(bedmap)

plt.figure(figsize=(8, 7))
ax = plt.subplot(111)
pc = bedmap.thickness.plot.pcolormesh(
    ax=ax, cmap=cmocean.cm.ice, cbar_kwargs=dict(pad=0.01, aspect=30)
)
ax.set_title("Bedmap2 Antarctica Ice Thickness")
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 24.598 seconds)

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