7July2016 Checklist - Big Picture

stephpenn1 / SeniorThesis

Changes in Antarctic Intermediate Water physical properties; RCP 8.5; CESM1 - BGC

0 stars 0 forks source link

7July2016 Checklist - Big Picture #1

Open stephpenn1 opened 8 years ago

stephpenn1 commented 8 years ago

[x] Download data for density script
[x] Identify mode and intermediate water by density based on low salinity minimum
[ ] Look into potential vorticity - can we calculate it in SeaWater packages? or use mixed layer depth?
[x] Make surface and depth plots of salinity and density
[x] Pick certain coordinates of interest
[x] Averaging over 10 or 20 year period
[ ] Dominant modes of variability in Pacific

cahartin commented 8 years ago

i found some data that you can download! You will need another username/password https://www.earthsystemgrid.org/home.html search project - cmip5 model - cesm1-bgc experiment - rcp85 find file with time_frequency=mon, modeling realm=ocean and oceanBgchem download options find rhopoto, thetao, so

stephpenn1 commented 8 years ago

I finished downloading the rhopoto, I am having trouble opening the file on my computer (and in Matlab), though. I'm looking on google to see if I'm missing something needed for a Mac or in Matlab

cahartin commented 8 years ago

This looks like a pretty easy guide that you could start with.

http://www.public.asu.edu/~hhuang38/matlab_netcdf_guide.pdf

I finished downloading the rhopoto, I am having trouble opening the file on my computer (and in Matlab), though. I'm looking on google to see if I'm missing something needed for a Mac or in Matlab

cahartin commented 8 years ago

@stephpenn1 I added a few more lines of code to our quick example script to pull out and average over 1 year of the data. Recall we had to switch from ncdf to ncdf4 package on your end. I'll make those changes on my side soon.