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Investigate suspect ice water equivalent charts / API data #107

Open cstephen opened 3 months ago

cstephen commented 3 months ago

Load the Ice/Snow Water Equivalent ARDAC item:

http://arcticdatascience.org/item/hydrology-iswe

Enter Valdez into the place selector and look at the ice water equivalent chart. Notice how the values start very high for the 1950-1959 decade and then fall in a nearly perfect line through the subsequent decades until 2000-2009, and it does this for all 12 months. Is this expected? If this is due to model spinup or similar, should we omit the pre-2010 decades from the ice water equivalent maps and chart?

Here are the ice water equivalent charts from January - March for Valdez, for example:

january

february

march