Highlight areas with more/less sea ice compared to recent historical mean

[scotthosking]

The concentration maps are great, but at a first glance it would be useful to know where there is more or less sea ice compared to the past few (2?) years.

e.g., add an optional layer on top of the concentration plot. This would be a binary image, orange for less sea ice and green for more?

[JimCircadian]

This is an interesting idea. What I'm keen not to do is scope-creep the dashboard designed for specific use-cases into a general purpose tool for GIS style layer display.

That said, this idea as well as Tom's idea for OSISAF plotting got me thinking that these functionalities do belong somewhere, likely as preparation in icenet-event-processor for asset production and the accessible via the API/tile service that is intended to be expanded on herein.

How this looks from a UI / UX perspective is a slightly different matter, so expect more issues to link in with this and build upon both issues.

[tom-andersson]

Nice idea @scotthosking. Comparing with the last 2 years would be quite noisy though. More common would be to plot the daily climatological mean ice edge (SIC=15% contour) and compare this with the predicted ice edge. This would warrant a separate plot.

I can totally see how bespoke plots like this can create scope creep @JimCircadian. It's hard to not get too excited about this tool!

[JimCircadian]

No worries @tom-andersson, I'm keen to do something! That said, there're other endpoints in here, so anything "layered" is best being fed into a GIS application, and we have more than one API sat behind this infrastructure.

Let's keep these ideas coming and we'll get some dev in place, this all feeds into the "grander plans" so please don't take my techno realism as a dampener to the enthusiasm! 😉