Project Week 3 Exercise 1
M Mitchell, P Noble -
01/03/2024
Schedule:
All week, Week 23 .
Plotting Geophysical Data
For this first exercise we have pre-downloaded two files onto all the hard drives in the room for you. Please work through this exercise in 2s or 3s within your group
1. Find the data location in your file explorer
ESACCI-SEAICE-L4-SICONC-AMSR_25.0kmEASE2-NH-20160101-fv2.1.nc.
2. Download the function getnet.m
3. Download the script Exercise1.m
4. Edit the script Exercise1.m to make a plot of the data
5. What does the plot show?
Hint, the white areas are land
6. Give the plot appropriate colourbar labels, axis labels and titles
Hint, look at the structure called sea_ice, the attributes section will tell you information about all the different variables in this datafile, such as units and scale factor
7. Repeat for another other data file
‘ESACCI-SEAICE-L4-SICONC-AMSR_25.0kmEASE2-NH-20160801-fv2.1.nc’
8. Think about the two plots.
What is a possible reason for their difference?
(Hint, explore the time variable in the sea_ice structure or look at the file names)