polartoolkit.fetch.basal_melt#
- basal_melt(version='w_b', variable=None, region=None, spacing=None, registration=None, **kwargs)[source]#
Antarctic ice shelf basal melt rates for 1994-2018 from satellite radar altimetry. from Adusumilli et al.[1].
accessed from http://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb0448974g
reading files and preprocessing from supplied jupyternotebooks: sioglaciology/ice_shelf_change
Units are in m/yr
- Parameters:
version (str) – choose which version to load, either ‘w_b’ for basal melt rate, ‘w_b_interp’, for basal melt rate with interpolated values, and ‘w_b_uncert’ for uncertainty
- Returns:
Returns a dataarray of basal melt rate values
- Return type:
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