Overview

Modules

PolarToolkit is a Python package developed to help with conducting polar science. The 5 modules shown here provide tools to help with a variety of common tasks.

Regions

The regions module enables pre-defined or interactively chosen geographic regions. This includes many ice shelves, glaciers, and general geographic regions. These can be used in functions throughout the package, such as subsetting data or specifying areas to plot.

Fetch

The fetch module allows to easily download data sets to your computer, retrieve previously download data sets, and perform common gridded data manipulations. This module uses pooch to managed the download, storage, and retrieve of data, and pygmt, xarray, and verde for grid manipulations.

Maps

The maps module can be used to create high-quality maps using pygmt with functions specifically tailored to Antarctica, Greenland and the Arctic. Some included plot types are; 2D, 3D, subplots, and interactive maps.

Profiles

The profiles module has tools to define a line, sample layers & data along it, and plot the results.

Utils

The utils module has useful functions for common tasks: coordinate conversion, grid comparison, masking, de-trending, as well as functions used throughout the rest of the package.