Compute u and v velocities for TPXO9-atlas about pytmd

[tsutterley]

Hi @aragong. That should be hopefully all you would have to do. Similar to the matlab TMD package, using TYPE='u' will give you the tidal velocities in cm/s and TYPE='U' will give you the tidal transports in m^2/s. I added a notebook (Plot Antarctic Tidal Currents.ipynb) showing an animation of tidal velocities around Antarctica which hopefully helps you on your way.

[aragong]

Hi @tsutterley, Thank you for adding those notebooks, I am waiting for access to download netCDF databases of TPXO (I used binary files in Matlab), I am sure it will be a great help.

In my specific case, I want to obtain currents in CFSR_ocean grid (global grid) for a specific period of time (e.g. 1 month). I should use predict_tide_drift() instead of predict_tide() for my specific case, shouldn't I?

Than you for your time!

[tsutterley]

the netCDF files do make it a lot easier :)

predict_tide_drift() was originally written for drift buoys but I use it for satellite and airborne altimetry (space and time are different for each point). I think predict_tide() should be the function in your case (single instance in time for all spatial points).