Arctic Ocean Freshwater Synthesis

MATLAB code to build a schematic diagram of Arctic Ocean freshwater storage and fluxes. Data taken from Jahn & Laiho (2020) and Haine et al. (2015), plus updates.

Run MATLAB codes as follows:

• Run flux_update.m to make a diagnostic figure of freshwater fluxes from Haine et al. (2015), plus recent public data updates. This builds the .mat file used in the main script.
• Run make_LFC_map.m to make the liquid freshwater content basemap adapted from Haine et al. (2015) Fig. 6.
• Run schematic_figure.m to read Alex Jahn's CESM data from Jahn & Laiho (2020) and make the subplots for the schematic figure (six .eps files).
• Use Mac keynote to build schematic.key and hence schematic.pdf using the component figure files.

The MATLAB code uses Gibbs-Seawater (GSW) Oceanographic Toolbox functions.

A commentary article entitled Arctic Ocean Freshening Linked to Anthropogenic Climate Change: All Hands on Deck has been submitted to GRL. See the ESSOAr preprint here.

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