selecting buoy data for the interpolation by hour not just daily
I am not sure if this is an issue but I need to double check this!
When doing some reading within the scoop of the sampling requirements for meteorological variables over the ocean I started thinking of the following:
- I interpolate CCI SST data at the buoy coordinates in a specific location (x,y) for a given day. The buoy locations are locations from the buoy.pandas.dataframe masked to that specific date.
But what about the hours? the CCI SST vary every full hour ... wouldn't be more accurate if I mask the buoy data to that particular hour rather than on a daily basis?
I think I ended up doing it by day because to analyse the time series I calculate daily means but this needs double checking when gridding the interpolated data!
Relevant scripts to double check: https://git.noc.ac.uk/brecinosrivas/orchestra-sst/-/blob/master/scripts/coarse_cci_sst.py
https://git.noc.ac.uk/brecinosrivas/orchestra-sst/-/blob/master/sst_tools/workflow_sst.py#L190