PolarToolkit: Python Tools for Convenient,Reproducible, and Open Polar Science

PolarToolkit (formerly known as Antarctic-Plots) is a Python package with the goal of making polar (i.e.Antarctic, Arctic, Greenland) research more efficient, reproducible, and accessible.The software does this by providing: 1) convenient functions for downloading and pre-processing a wide range of commonly used polar datasets; 2) tools for common geospatial tasks (i.e.changing data resolution, subsetting data by geographic regions); 3) code to easily create publication-quality maps, data profiles, and cross-sections; and 4) a means to interactively explore datasets.