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fix gdp6h docstring (#490)
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philippemiron authored Jul 3, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -88,13 +88,10 @@ def gdp6h(decode_times: bool = True) -> xr.Dataset:
"""Returns the NOAA Global Drifter Program (GDP) 6-hourly dataset as a ragged array
Xarray dataset.
The data is accessed from a public HTTPS server at NOAA's Atlantic
The data is accessed from zarr archive hosted on a public AWS S3 bucket accessible at
s3://noaa-oar-hourly-gdp-pds/experimental/. Original data source from NOAA's Atlantic
Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) accessible at
https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/gdp/index.php. It should be noted that the data loading
method is platform dependent. Linux and Darwin (macOS) machines lazy load the datasets leveraging the
byte-range feature of the netCDF-c library (dataset loading engine used by xarray).
Windows machines download the entire dataset into a memory buffer which is then passed
to xarray.
https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/gdp/index.php.
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