IceCast (version 2.1.0)

land_mat: Binary matrix indicating where there is land

Description

Binary matrix of dimension 304 x 448 with value for 1 for land grid boxes and 0 otherwise. Data are on a north Polar Stereographic grid with the land mask simplified to match model output from the CM2.5 Forecast-oriented Low-Ocean Resolution (FLOR) model produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<U+2019>s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory converted to a Polar Stereographic grid (Vecchi et al. 2014; Msadek et al. 2014). Weights for converting to a polar stereograhic grid were obtained from the spherical coordinate remapping and interpolation package (SCRIP) (Jones 1997).

Usage

land_mat

Format

304 x 448 matix

References

Vecchi, Gabriel A., et al. "On the seasonal forecasting of regional tropical cyclone activity." Journal of Climate 27.21 (2014): 7994-8016.

Msadek, R., et al. "Importance of initial conditionsin seasonal predictions of Arctic sea ice extent." Geophysical Research Letters 41.14 (2014): 5208-5215.

National Center for Atmospheric Research, 2017: Earth system grid at NCAR. https://www.earthsystemgrid.org/home.html.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(land_mat)
image(land_mat, xaxt = "n", yaxt = "n")
# }