get_icecurves {hockeystick}

Download and plot essential climate data

Description

Retrieves Arctic or Antarctic monthly Sea Ice Index time series (in million square km). Source is the National Snow and Ice Data Center, defaults to Arctic (Northern Hemisphere) monthly sea ice extent since 1979. https://nsidc.org/data/explore-data

Usage

get_icecurves(
  pole = "N",
  measure = "extent",
  use_cache = TRUE,
  write_cache = getOption("hs_write_cache")
)

Arguments

pole

'N' for Arctic or 'S' for Antarctic

measure

Must be 'extent' or 'area', defaults to 'extent'. Please see terminology link in references for details.

use_cache

(boolean) Return cached data if available, defaults to TRUE. Use FALSE to fetch updated data, or to change pole or month in cache.

write_cache

(boolean) Write data to cache, defaults to FALSE. Use TRUE to write data to cache for later use. Can also be set using options(hs_write_cache=TRUE)

Value

Invisibly returns a tibble with the series of monthly Sea Ice Index since 1979 (in million square km).

get_icecurves invisibly returns a tibble with time series of monthly Sea Ice Index since 1979 (in million square km).

User may select monthly Arctic or Antarctic sea ice extent or area (in millions of square kilometers). Defaults to Arctic sea ice extent. https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/faq/#area_extent

Author(s)

Hernando Cortina, [e-mail]

References

• NSIDC Data Archive: https://nsidc.org/data/explore-data

• All About Sea Ice: https://nsidc.org/learn/parts-cryosphere/sea-ice

• Sea Ice terminology: https://nsidc.org/learn

Examples

# Fetch monthly sea ice history from cache if available:
icecurves <- get_icecurves()
#
# Force cache refresh:
icecurves <- get_icecurves(use_cache = FALSE)
# change region
south_icecurves <- get_icecurves(pole='S',  use_cache = FALSE)
#
# Review cache contents and last update dates:
hockeystick_cache_details()
#
# Plot output using package's built-in ggplot2 settings
plot_icecurves(icecurves)