The Climate Data Toolbox for MATLAB
The Climate Data Toolbox for MATLAB
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DOI：
10.1029/2019gc008392
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发表时间：
2019-07-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Blankenship, Donald D.
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作者：
Greene, Chad A.;Thirumalai, Kaustubh;Blankenship, Donald D.
气候科学本质上是高度跨学科的，因此理解地球过程之间的相互作用本质上保证了使用可以跨地球科学学科运行的分析软件。为此，我们提出了气候数据库MATLAB，其中包含100多个功能，跨越地球科学的主要气候相关学科。该工具箱支持简化的、完全可编写脚本的工作流，这些工作流编写直观，易于共享。包括评估不确定性，执行矩阵运算，计算气候指数和生成通用数据显示的功能。文档以教学方式呈现，详细解释了每个功能的工作原理，并提供了如何使用工具箱复制已发表研究结果的教程。作为一个经过充分测试、文档齐全的跨学科协作平台，Climate Data Climate Data Climate Platform for MATLAB旨在减少编写底层代码的时间，让研究人员专注于物理而不是编码，并鼓励更有效的代码共享。简明语言摘要本文介绍了最近发布的一组计算机代码，这些代码可帮助科学家分析多种类型的地球科学数据。这个工具箱中的代码可以很容易地调查全球变暖，厄尔尼诺或其他主要的气候相关过程，如风如何影响海洋环流。虽然该工具箱是专为气候科学专家设计的，但它的说明手册写得很好，初学者只需沿着提供的示例，就可以学到很多关于编码和地球科学的知识。该工具箱旨在帮助科学家节省时间，帮助他们确保他们的分析是准确的，并使其他科学家更容易重复以前的研究结果。
Climate science is highly interdisciplinary by nature, so understanding interactions between Earth processes inherently warrants the use of analytical software that can operate across the disciplines of Earth science. Toward this end, we present the Climate Data Toolbox for MATLAB, which contains more than 100 functions that span the major climate-related disciplines of Earth science. The toolbox enables streamlined, entirely scriptable workflows that are intuitive to write and easy to share. Included are functions to evaluate uncertainty, perform matrix operations, calculate climate indices, and generate common data displays. Documentation is presented pedagogically, with thorough explanations of how each function works and tutorials showing how the toolbox can be used to replicate results of published studies. As a well-tested, well-documented platform for interdisciplinary collaborations, the Climate Data Toolbox for MATLAB aims to reduce time spent writing low-level code, let researchers focus on physics rather than coding and encourage more efficacious code sharing.Plain Language Summary This article describes a collection of computer code that has recently been released to help scientists analyze many types of Earth science data. The code in this toolbox makes it easy to investigate things like global warming, El Nino, or other major climate-related processes such as how winds affect ocean circulation. Although the toolbox was designed to be used by expert climate scientists, its instruction manual is well written, and beginners may be able to learn a great deal about coding and Earth science, simply by following along with the provided examples. The toolbox is intended to help scientists save time, help them ensure their analysis is accurate, and make it easy for other scientists to repeat the results of previous studies.