/animating-sea-level-change

Shell and R code to create animated gif of sea level change.

Primary LanguageRCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 InternationalCC-BY-4.0

R code for plotting sea level changes over the last 800,000 years.

Just run:

    ./create-animated-map.sh

or

    bash create-animated-map.sh

Acknowledgments

Resources

Sea-level estimates are from the projection of Spratt and Lisiecki (2016). These data are included in the repository and can be found here:

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo-search/study/19982

The bathymetry data are from the ETOPO1 1-arc-minute global relief model (Amante and Eakins, 2009), which are here:

https://data.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/iso?id=gov.noaa.ngdc.mgg.dem:316

Animation generated using marmap Version 1.0.2 (Pante and Simon-Bouhet, 2013), ggplot2 Version 2.2.1 (Wickham, 2009), ImageMagick Version 6.9.10-8 Q16 x86_64 20180723, and FFmpeg Version 4.0.2-2

Literature cited

Amante, C. and B. W. Eakins, 2009. ETOPO1 1 arc-minute global relief model: Procedures, data sources and analysis. Tech. rep., National Geophysical Data Center, Marine Geology and Geophysics Division, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, Colorado, USA.

Pante, E. and B. Simon-Bouhet, 2013. marmap: a package for importing, plotting and analyzing bathymetric and topographic data in R. PLoS ONE 8:e73051. Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0073051.

Spratt, R. M. and L. E. Lisiecki, 2016. A Late Pleistocene sea level stack. Climate of the Past 12:1079–1092.

Funding

This work was made possible by funding provided to Jamie Oaks from the National Science Foundation (grant number DEB 1656004).

License

The R and bash code for this work are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

You should have received a copy of the license along with this work. If not, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.