glidertools.load.seaglider_basestation_netCDFs

glidertools.load.seaglider_basestation_netCDFs(files, variable_names, return_merged=False, verbose=True, keep_global_attrs=False, netcdf_attrs={}, keep_variable_attrs=True)

Load a list of variables from the SeaGlider object as a pandas.DataFrame.

Parameters:

variable_names (list) – a list of strings representing the keys you would like to load.

Returns:

Will always have coordinate dimensions loaded (even if not specified). These can then be accessed either by the variable objects or by .data[<dimension_name>].

Return type:

pandas.DataFrame

Note

Using this method resets all previously loaded and stored data (data is stored under SeaGlider.data={dim: pandas.DataFrame}). This is done to avoid erroneous coordinate matchup with sometimes missing data).