.. _task_timeSeriesSeaIceAreaVol: timeSeriesSeaIceAreaVol ======================= An analysis task for plotting time series of sea ice area and volume for both the Arctic and Antarctic against observations. Component and Tags:: component: seaIce tags: timeSeries, publicObs Configuration Options --------------------- The following configuration options are available for this task:: [timeSeriesSeaIceAreaVol] ## options related to plotting time series of sea ice area and volume # compare to observations? compareWithObservations = True # Number of points over which to compute moving average (e.g., for monthly # output, movingAveragePoints=12 corresponds to a 12-month moving average # window) movingAveragePoints = 1 # title font properties titleFontSize = 18 # plot on polar plot polarPlot = False # An optional first year for the tick marks on the x axis. Leare commented out # to start at the beginning of the time series. # firstYearXTicks = 1 # An optional number of years between tick marks on the x axis. Leave # commented out to determine the distance between ticks automatically. # yearStrideXTicks = 1 ``compareWithObservations`` can be set to ``False`` to disable comparison with both sets of observations (see below). The title font size can be customized with ``titleFontSize``, given in points. To produce ploar plots (with time progressing clockwise around the origin and sea ice area or volume the distance from the origin) in addition to the typical time series with time on the x axis, set ``polarPlot = True``. For details on the remaining config options, see: * :ref:`config_moving_average` * :ref:`config_time_axis_ticks` Observations ------------ * :ref:`ssmi_ice_area` * :ref:`piomass_ice_volume` Example Result -------------- .. image:: examples/ice_area_nh.png :width: 500 px :align: center