TWP Drives Antarctic Mass Loss Slowdown: Atmospheric and Ice Data

Antarctic data and code support research on how the Tropical Western Pacific (TWP) atmospheric circulation influences a slowdown in Antarctic ice mass loss. The repository contains raw, intermediate, and result data files, alongside processing scripts in Python, IDL, and Fortran. Its primary use is for reproducing the figures and analyses from the associated scientific manuscript.

Use Cases

• Reproducing manuscript figures based on the provided code and data mapping workflow
• Analyzing vorticity tendency from synoptic eddies using the specific Fortran algorithm
• Processing Antarctic ice mass and precipitation data with the included IDL and Python scripts

Strengths

• Includes full reproduction code in multiple languages (Python, IDL, Fortran) for all manuscript figures
• Data is shared under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license
• Repository structure explicitly maps code blocks to specific figure numbers for reproducibility

Limitations

• Column names and row counts are not specified in the provided metadata
• The dataset size is large (~1.6 GB), which may hinder accessibility for some users
• Data is derived from other public sources; it is a processed compilation rather than primary collection

Provenance

Source

Publicly available datasets, as stated in the description

Collection Method

Processed using algorithms and scripts provided in the repository

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18

Geography

Antarctica, with potential links to the Tropical Western Pacific region