compute_SET_displacements.py

Calculates radial solid Earth tide displacements for an input file following IERS Convention (2010) guidelines
- https://iers-conventions.obspm.fr/chapter7.php
Can read and write ascii, netCDF4, HDF5, parquet and geotiff formats

Calling Sequence

--variables : @after

for csv files: the order of the columns within the file
for HDF5, netCDF4 and parquet files: time, y, x and data variable names

--type -t : @after

'drift': drift buoys or satellite/airborne altimetry (time per data point)
'grid': spatial grids or images (single time for all data points)
'time series': station locations with multiple time values

--epoch -e : @after

'days since 1858-11-17T00:00:00' (default Modified Julian Days)

--deltatime -d : @after

can be set to 0 to use exact calendar date from epoch

--standard -s : @after

'UTC': Coordinate Universal Time
'GPS': GPS Time
'LORAN': Long Range Navigator Time
'TAI': International Atomic Time
'datetime': formatted datetime string in UTC

--projection : @after

4326: latitude and longitude coordinates on WGS84 reference ellipsoid

--tide-system -p : @replace

Permanent tide system for output values

'tide_free': no permanent direct and indirect tidal potentials
'mean_tide': permanent tidal potentials (direct and indirect)

--ephemerides -c : @replace

Method for calculating lunisolar ephemerides

'approximate': low-resolution ephemerides
'JPL': computed solar and lunar ephemerides from JPL kernels