sl.mhd.edge: Edge Calculator for Modified Hausdorff Distance

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Edge Calculator for Modified Hausdorff Distance

Description

This function provides the (lon,lat) coordinates of an edge (e.g. sea ice edge) and of its land-ice interface, given a threshold value.

Usage

sl.mhd.edge(Var,LonGrid,LatGrid,Threshold)

Arguments

Var	The variable from which the edge has to be extracted. For sea ice this can be sea ice concentration or sea ice probability. Generally this is a 2D M x N array. In case of a model output with more than one ensemble member, this parameter can be passed as 3D M x N x e array, with e as the ensemble size. In this case the sea ice edge is calculated using the sea ice probability. IMPORTANT: Apply a data land mask as NaN directly to Var before passing the argument to the function. In this way the calculation of MHD will be meaningful.
LonGrid	The M x N longitude grid. See the function sl.ll.rec for more details.
LatGrid	The M x N latitude grid. See the function sl.ll.rec for more details.
Threshold	A threshold value (number). For sea ice concentration this is usually 15 %

Details

Please refer to the function sl.mhd.edge to calculate the coordinates of the edge and of the land interface. sl.mhd.edge output is the natural imput for sl.mhd. The distance employed to compute the MHD is the "great circle distance", given by sl.gc.dist.

Value

A list containing the (lon,lat) coordinates of the edge and of the land-ice interface.

Author(s)

Lorenzo Zampieri

See Also

sl.mhd

Examples

list = sl.mhd.edge(SeaIceConcentration,LonGrid,LatGrid,Threshold)
## sl.mhd(Edge1,Edge2,LandEdge1,LandEdge2) 
## Should result in double, which represent the MHD of the two edges in meters

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