Taylor diagrams for model-Takahashi CO2 flux intercomparison in North-Atlantic


This comparison includes CO2 fluxes from model PISCES, which is in a preliminary development state.

You can download a PDF version of each diagram below by clicking on it.

See the commands that produced this set of diagrams

  Total space-time field
  Zonal annual mean
Zonal monthly mean
Monthly anomaly to zonal annual mean
Annual mean map
Monthly anomaly to annual mean map
Longitudinal anomaly to monthly zonal mean
Annual mean longitudinal anomaly to zonal mean

The two commands that produced this set of diagrams:

1) The command that produced the statistics NetCDF file (TAKA_FCO2_comp_stat/TAKA_FCO2_comp_stat.nc)

>>> python model_vs_data_comp_stat.py -oTAKA_FCO2_comp_stat/TAKA_FCO2_comp_stat.nc -tTAKA_FCO2_comp_stat/TAKA_FCO2_comp_stat.txt /home/geocean/ocmip/data/gridded/taka2001/TAKA_fco2_2002.nc FCO2 "/home/geocean/ocmip/phase2/%(MODEL)/Abiotic/hist/%(model)_TAKA_Ftot_1995_drift.nc" FTOT

This command also produced a text file containing all the statistics (TAKA_FCO2_comp_stat/TAKA_FCO2_comp_stat.txt).


2) The command that read the statistics and produced all the diagrams

>>> python plot_taylor_diagrams.py -i40 -t "Model/Takahashi Sea-Air CO2 flux comparison" -pbrd -o TAKA_FCO2_comp_stat/ TAKA_FCO2_comp_stat/TAKA_FCO2_comp_stat.nc

Note that, though we specify the diagram title, some other meta-information (units)  is extracted from the data or model output files.
The model list and their code letter are extracted from a miscellaneous file: model_dictionary.py.