Climatological maps of sea ice variability for the Antarctic marginal ice zone

Monthly climatologies of astatistical indicator of sea ice variabilitycomputed from daily maps of sea ice concentration (SIC) from satellites (Vichi, 2022).The sigma_SIAindicator is based on the standard deviation of SIC daily anomalies computed over the monthly time scales, using a monthly climatol...

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Main Author: Marcello Vichi
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Language:English
Published: Zenodo 2022
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7077676
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Summary:Monthly climatologies of astatistical indicator of sea ice variabilitycomputed from daily maps of sea ice concentration (SIC) from satellites (Vichi, 2022).The sigma_SIAindicator is based on the standard deviation of SIC daily anomalies computed over the monthly time scales, using a monthly climatology as the baseline. The following files have been derived from NOAA/NSIDC Climate Data Record of Passive Microwave Sea Ice Concentration, Version 4 ( https://doi.org/10.7265/efmz-2t65 and used in Vichi (2022). The code to produce them is available at the following repository https://github.com/mvichi/antarcticMIZ ( DOI:10.25375/uct.21103363 ) NSIDC_cdr_clim_m_sigmaSIA.nc: Climatological monthly sigma_SIA (climatological 'pooled' monthly std of daily anomaly) from NOAA/NSIDC CDR Southern Hemisphere Sea Ice Concentration NSIDC_cdr_clim_m_maskMIZ.nc: Climatological mask of the MIZ extent using a sigma_SIA>0.1criterion NSIDC_cdr_clim_m_sigmaSIA_exceedance.nc: Climatological probability maps of exceeding sigma_SIA>0.1and sigma_SIA>0.2 TheseNetCDF files contain12 monthly arrays with the climatological sigma_SIA computed over the period 1989-2019. Please note that the indicator in this file is in % of SIC, while in the original paper it is presented in fractional units. Reference Vichi, M.: An indicator of sea ice variability for the Antarctic marginal ice zone, The Cryosphere, 16, 4087–4106, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-4087-2022 , 2022. This project has received funding from the National Research Foundation through the South African National Antarctic Program and from the Whales&Climate Program (https://whalesandclimate.org)