fetch_aviso_fes

Downloads the FES (Finite Element Solution) global tide model from AVISO
Decompresses the model tar files into the constituent files and auxiliary files
Must have data access to tide models from AVISO

Note

FES outputs are licensed for scientific purposes only

pyTMD.datasets.fetch_aviso_fes(model: str, directory: str | Path | None = PosixPath('/home/docs/.cache/pytmd'), user: str = '', password: str = '', load: bool = False, currents: bool = False, extrapolated: bool = False, compressed: bool = False, timeout: int | None = None, mode: oct = 509)[source]

Download AVISO FES global tide models from the AVISO FTP server

Parameters:

model: str: FES tide model to download
directory: str or pathlib.Path: Working data directory
user: str, default ‘’: Username for AVISO Login
password: str, default ‘’: Password for AVISO Login
load: bool, default False: Download load tide model outputs
currents: bool, default False: Download tide model current outputs
extrapolated: bool, default False: Download extrapolated tide model outputs
compressed: bool, default False: Compress output ASCII and netCDF4 tide files
timeout: int, default None: Timeout in seconds for blocking operations
mode: oct, default 0o775: Local permissions mode of the files downloaded

CLI

usage: fetch_aviso_fes.py [-h] [--user USER] [--password PASSWORD]
                          [--netrc NETRC] [--directory DIRECTORY]
                          [--tide TIDE [TIDE ...]] [--load] [--currents]
                          [--extrapolated] [--gzip] [--timeout TIMEOUT]
                          [--mode MODE]

Named Arguments

--user, -U: Username for AVISO Login
--password, -W: Password for AVISO Login
--netrc, -N: Path to .netrc file for authentication
--directory, -D: Working data directory
--tide, -T: FES tide model to download
--load: Download load tide model outputs
--currents: Download tide model current outputs
--extrapolated: Download extrapolated tide model outputs
--gzip, -G: Compress output ASCII and netCDF4 tide files
--timeout, -t: Timeout in seconds for blocking operations
--mode, -M: Permission mode of directories and files downloaded