Notebook: Investigating upper ocean variability during tropical cyclones and seasonal sea ice formation and melting: Argovis APIs exposed to co-locate oceanic and atmospheric datasets
- Large portions of code were consolidated into pre-defined functions.
- All pre-defined functions were compiled into utilities.py and imported as part of the local library imports (Section 2.2). A list and description of the functions is found in Section 2.3 of the notebook.
- Progress bars were added for data download and plotting functions where useful.
contact: giovanni.seijo@colorado.edu
Argovis is a web app and database that allows easy access to Argo profile observations of the global ocean and other earth science datasets using a browser and/or via Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). This notebook serves two main purposes: (i) introducing two new APIs available to access National Hurricane Center tropical cyclone (TC) track data and sea-ice concentration from the Southern Ocean State Estimate (SOSE), and (ii) leverage the capabilities of these APIs with interactive educational activities suitable for courses in oceanography and air-sea interactions. In addition, the notebook serves as a basis for research applications of the two APIs, e.g. to co-locate these datasets with oceanic observations (e.g. profiles of ocean temperature and salinity from Argo) for interdisciplinary research at the interface of different climate system components: the ocean, the atmosphere and the cryosphere.