Polar Sea Ice

This data set comes from http://www.naturestudy.org/projects/bowhead-sea-ice/  where it was an Excel spreadsheet.  It has been exported as a "Formatted text (space delimited) PRN" file, and lines with NaN removed.

http://www.naturestudy.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Marine_Fisheries_Review_v67n3.pdf  has a discussion of this dataset.

Code to show

% open file to write

%Extract only lines matching parameter
 

Very rough code to demonstrate several concepts

% strcat to make a file name
% keeping track of the loop progress
% creating figures in a loop

 

 

You are to do all operations in Matlab using code and not use the import function except through code.

Your goal is to make:

• Monthly maps with the observed locations of sea ice during that month.
• A table with the number of observations by month or year.
• One additional graphic that shows something interesting about this data set.  If you are ambitious, this could be a movie of the monthly images.
• A short discussion which discusses what the data shows and
  • Correctly cites the data source, and the paper in Marine Fisheries Review
  • Correctly references the figures and table.