# oggm.shop.its_live.velocity_to_gdir¶

oggm.shop.its_live.velocity_to_gdir(gdir, add_error=False)[source]

Reproject the its_live files to the given glacier directory.

Variables are added to the gridded_data nc file.

Reprojecting velocities from one map proj to another is done reprojecting the vector distances. In this process, absolute velocities might change as well because map projections do not always preserve distances -> we scale them back to the original velocities as per the ITS_LIVE documentation that states that velocities are given in ground units, i.e. absolute velocities.

We use bilinear interpolation to reproject the velocities to the local glacier map.

Parameters: gdir : oggm.GlacierDirectory where to write the data add_error : bool also reproject and scale the error data

Notes

Files writen to the glacier directory:
gridded_data.nc
A netcdf file containing several gridded data variables such as topography, the glacier masks, the interpolated 2D glacier bed, and more.