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Jim Hunt

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PIOMAS gridded thickness and regional volume
« on: June 14, 2017, 11:14:04 AM »
Many moons ago Chris Reynolds produced regular updates of PIOMAS regional volume derived from the gridded thickness data. Here's the most recent example:



and here's his explanatory article:

http://dosbat.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/regional-piomas-volume-data.html

There seems to be a lot of renewed interest in such data, so can we pick things up where Chris left off?

Rob Dekker asks:

Jim, did Chris Reynolds define the various 'seas' anywhere ?

To which the answer is yes. See Chris's article above and the associated data at:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B3pB-kdzoLU3T2RSSGIxYkJVMlU

My first thought was to start from Zack Labe's public domain PIOMAS python code available at:

https://github.com/zmlabe/SeaIceThickness

Zack's currently away from his office at a conference in Colorado, but has kindly agreed to provide the missing "grids.txt" file on his return.

Does anybody else have any other suggestions?
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Re: PIOMAS gridded thickness and regional volume
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2017, 11:27:52 AM »
As I was setting up this thread the wondrous Wipneus was delivering the data. See:

http://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php/topic,119.msg117013.html#msg117013
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