GO-SHIP-Oceanography / station_bathymetry

Code to plot lat/lon bathymetry at a measurement station for oceanographic cruise vessels
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[New Code]: plot_bottles_over_topography #8

Closed ShuwenTan-PO closed 9 months ago

ShuwenTan-PO commented 9 months ago

What does this code do?

This code plots bottle depths over topography along a GO-SHIP transect.

Why is it useful to the GO-SHIP/oceanographic cruise community?

Bottles along a GO-SHIP transect must be arranged to cover most of the water bodies. Therefore, instead of sampling at "standard levels", GO-SHIP uses three sampling schema in rotation to stagger standard sampling depths for consecutive stations. Caution needs to be exercised when designing bottle depths near changing bathymetry or when encountering a faulty bottle that consistently fails at the same depth. Both cases may cause two adjacent stations to have samples at similar depths. Being able to visualize planned, fired (and misfired) bottles over topography will help decision-making in terms of schema rotation and bottom depth design to prevent such occurrences.

What are your contact details (github usernames/institute pages/emails)?

If the code already exists in a personal git repository please also link that here. Shuwen Tan (@ShuwenTan-PO, s.tan@uci.edu)

Does the code have a software license attached to it?

MIT License

Have you read the GO-SHIP contribution guidelines?

Yes!

jatkinson1000 commented 9 months ago

Hi @ShuwenTan-PO Thanks for doing this, really excited to get on and add the code!

Please could you open the issue here on the bulk GO-SHIP Organisation repository rather on this station-bathymetry repo (we will give you your own repo for the new code).

I'll review the main guidelines to clarify this as well.

ShuwenTan-PO commented 9 months ago

Sounds good, a new issue is now opened on the bulk GO-SHIP repository. Thanks!

jatkinson1000 commented 9 months ago

Excellent, thank you. Closing this now and will progress the new one in due course.