grace_find_months

  • Finds the months available for a GRACE/GRACE-FO/Swarm product

  • Finds the all months missing from the product

Calling Sequence

from gravity_toolkit.grace_find_months import grace_find_months
grace_months = grace_find_months(base_dir, PROC, DREL, DSET=DSET)

Source code

gravity_toolkit.grace_find_months(base_dir, PROC, DREL, DSET='GSM')[source]

Parses date index file

Finds the months available for a GRACE/GRACE-FO/Swarm product

Finds the all months missing from the product

Parameters:
base_dir: str

working data directory

PROC: str

GRACE data processing center

  • 'CSR': University of Texas Center for Space Research

  • 'GFZ': German Research Centre for Geosciences (GeoForschungsZentrum)

  • 'JPL': Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  • 'CNES': French Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales

  • 'GRAZ': Institute of Geodesy from GRAZ University of Technology

  • 'COSTG': Combination Service for Time-variable Gravity Fields

  • 'Swarm': Time-variable gravity data from Swarm satellites

DREL: str

GRACE/GRACE-FO/Swarm data release

DSET: str, default ‘GSM’

GRACE/GRACE-FO/Swarm dataset

  • 'GAA': non-tidal atmospheric correction

  • 'GAB': non-tidal oceanic correction

  • 'GAC': combined non-tidal atmospheric and oceanic correction

  • 'GAD': ocean bottom pressure product

  • 'GSM': corrected monthly static gravity field product

Returns:
start: int

First month in a GRACE/GRACE-FO dataset

end: int

Last month in a GRACE/GRACE-FO dataset

missing: list

missing months in a GRACE/GRACE-FO dataset

months: list

all available months in a GRACE/GRACE-FO dataset

time: list

center dates of all available months in a GRACE/GRACE-FO dataset