Supraglacial Lakes - Polar Hackathon

Description: This dataset consists of the maximum extent of supraglacial hydrological activity during January 2017 and detailed 10,478 supraglacial features (10,223 lakes and 255 channels), with cumulative area 119.4 square km in total on the West Antarctic ice sheet and Antarctic Peninsula.
Original Data Source: Corr et al. (2021)
Reference: https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/14/209/2022/
OSC entry: https://opensciencedata.esa.int/products/supraglacial-lakes-west-4dantarctica/collection
License: CC-BY-4.0
Repo Folder: ./datasets/supraglacial_lakes

import geopandas as gpd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import cartopy.crs as ccrs
import cartopy.feature as cfeature

# Read the subglacial lakes boundaries
bucket = 's3://EarthCODE/'
endpoint_url = "https://s3.waw4-1.cloudferro.com"
region_name = "eu-west-2"
file = 'OSCAssets/polar_cube_datasets/supraglacial_lakes/WAIS_Jan_2017_Polygons.parquet'


gdf = gpd.read_parquet(
    f"{bucket}{file}",
    storage_options={ "anon": True, 
                    "client_kwargs": {
                        "endpoint_url": endpoint_url,
                        "region_name": region_name
                    }
    }
)
gdf

gdf.explore()

References¶

Corr, D., Leeson, A., McMillan, M., Zhang, C., & Barnes, T. (2021). Supraglacial lakes and channels in West Antarctica and Antarctic Peninsula during January 2017. Zenodo. 10.5281/ZENODO.5642755