Proposed Recipes for GLAD drifter data

[dhruvbalwada]

Dataset Name

Grand LAgrangian Deployment surface drifters

Dataset URL

https://data.gulfresearchinitiative.org/data/R1.x134.073:0004

Description

Surface drifter observations collected by 297 CODE-style surface drifters in the Gulf of Mexico.

License

Unknown

Data Format

Other (describe below)

Data Format (other)

dat/txt (csv like)

Access protocol

Other

Source File Organization

Single .dat file contains a table with all the data.

Example URLs

https://data.gulfresearchinitiative.org/data/R1.x134.073:0004 
I am not sure how to find the url that links to the file.

Authorization

No; data are fully public

Transformation / Processing

Data needs to be converted from tabular format to some other more convenient format, maybe a dictionary, ragged array, or something similar. The format is similar for many drifter datasets, so whatever we do here can help with other datasets.

Target Format

Zarr

Comments

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[rabernat]

Similar to #101.