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Your name: Julie Padilla
Your prompt: Trends
Date for your prompt in April: 28
Image:
Your key takeaways (1-2 sentences each):
- 2023 ice coverage on all 5 of the Great Lakes was significantly below the 50 year average
- The greatest deviation from the average was on Lake Superior (- 67% below average) and the smallest deviation was on Lake Ontario (- 45%).
- Basin-wide 2023 ice coverage was 59% below average
Your data sources:
Ice data is from the Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab
Great Lakes spatial data is from US Geological Survey
Key programs and/or packages used: R
, packages: targets
, ggplot2
, cowplot
- tidyverse
- dataRetrieval
- sf
- sbtools
- cowplot
- targets pipeline
Overall method to create this viz:
- targets pipeline