.. _task_climatologyMapSeaIceThickNH: climatologyMapSeaIceThickNH =========================== An analysis task for plotting maps of Arctic sea ice thickness against observations. Component and Tags:: component: seaIce tags: climatology, horizontalMap, seaIceThick, publicObs Configuration Options --------------------- The following configuration options are available for this task:: [climatologyMapSeaIceThickNH] ## options related to plotting horizontally remapped climatologies of ## sea ice thickness against reference model results and observations ## in the northern hemisphere (NH) # colormap for model/observations colormapNameResult = ice # color indices into colormapName for filled contours colormapIndicesResult = [20, 80, 110, 140, 170, 200, 230, 255] # colormap levels/values for contour boundaries colorbarLevelsResult = [0, 0.25, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5] # colormap for differences colormapNameDifference = balance # color indices into colormapName for filled contours colormapIndicesDifference = [0, 32, 64, 96, 128, 128, 160, 192, 224, 255] # colormap levels/values for contour boundaries colorbarLevelsDifference = [-3., -2.5, -2, -0.5, -0.1, 0, 0.1, 0.5, 2, 2.5, 3.] # Months or seasons to plot (These should be left unchanged, since # observations are only available for these seasons) seasons = ['FM', 'ON'] # comparison grid(s) ('latlon', 'antarctic') on which to plot analysis comparisonGrids = ['latlon'] # reference lat/lon for sea ice plots in the northern hemisphere minimumLatitude = 50 referenceLongitude = 0 # a list of prefixes describing the sources of the observations to be used observationPrefixes = [''] # arrange subplots vertically? vertical = False # observations files thicknessNH_ON = ICESat/ICESat_gridded_mean_thickness_NH_on.interp0.5x0.5_20180710.nc thicknessNH_FM = ICESat/ICESat_gridded_mean_thickness_NH_fm.interp0.5x0.5_20180710.nc The option ``minimumLatitude`` determines what the southernmost latitude (in degrees) included in the plot will be. The option ``referenceLongitude`` defines which longitude will be at the bottom of the plot. The option ``observationPrefixes`` should be left as a list of the empty string and is included for allowing easy code reuse with the ``climatologyMapSeaIceConc*`` tasks. The option ``vertical = True`` can be used to plot 3 panels one above another (resulting in a tall, thin image) rather than next to each other, the default (resulting in a short, wide image). The ability to modify observations files pointed to by ``thicknessNH_ON`` and ``thicknessNH_FM`` is provided for debugging purposes and these options should typically remain unchanged. For details on the remaining configration options, see: * :ref:`config_colormaps` * :ref:`config_seasons` * :ref:`config_comparison_grids` Observations ------------ :ref:`icesat_thickness` Example Result -------------- .. image:: examples/ice_thick_nh.png :width: 720 px :align: center