Colocation tool

Purpose

Colocation tool allows to:

• pre-download into cache files copernicus data colocated with a full batch of in-situ observations, grouped by spatio-temporal criteria (a.k.a. medium cubes)
• download remaining missing colocated copernicus data for a specific set of observations
• output colocated data as a {"Format still to be defined - either dataset or dataframe or netCDF"}, for each observation, using colocation limits criteria (a.k.a mini-cubes)
• display colocated data

How to

To use this tool:

1. make sure you installed the required libraries:
   

pip install -r requirements.txt

2. locally update you copernicus credentials (you only need it once):
   

import copernicusmarine
copernicusmarine.login()

3. update the configuration file: Colocation_cfg.py
4. run the tool: python Colocation.py

Configuration parameters

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inputs

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outputs

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