Writing a loop to calculate a seasonal cycle and then plot the seasonal cycle?

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My current code is this:
{for mdo=1:12
index_month = find(month==mdo);
month_mean = mean(avhrr.sst(index_month));
seasonal_cycle(mdo)=month_mean;
s_cycle_month(index_month) = month_mean;
end
hold on
plot(t, month_mean, 'r')}
When I run this, it produces a blank graph. I think the loop is correctly producing the seasonal cycle, how can I get it to plot the graph?
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bushra raza
bushra raza on 10 Jan 2019
Edited: bushra raza on 10 Jan 2019
Hi Victoria,
are you done with seasonal cycle calculations?
i have 30 years hourly data , and i want to see the seasonal cycle, and trend etc and further analysis. please guide me for its start?
Regards,
BNA

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Answers (2)

Chad Greene
Chad Greene on 6 Mar 2019
Check out the season and climatology functions in the Climate Data Toolbox for Matlab. The functions make it easy to extract seasonal cycles, (and they properly detrend the data before the calculation).
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Ronald Ssembajwe
Ronald Ssembajwe on 30 Nov 2022
Hi Chad, I've used this tool box and it works perfectly. However, would you care to include mor functions in the toolbox like the one that compute/extracts the Length of the groing season given moisture/precipitation and PET spatio-temporal datasets?

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Cedric
Cedric on 10 Jan 2018
Edited: Cedric on 10 Jan 2018
Where is t defined? In addition, month_mean is your intermediary variable; you want to plot either seasonal_cycle or s_cycle_month, which are your output vectors.
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Victoria Woods
Victoria Woods on 10 Jan 2018
t is defined earlier on in my code. I've changed my plot to t against s_cycle_month and it doesn't even open a figure anymore.
Cedric
Cedric on 11 Jan 2018
Edited: Cedric on 11 Jan 2018
Check every variable. Maybe one is an empty array. Try to compute intermediary terms manually, e.g.
index_month = find(month==1)
If it outputs nothing it means that month, which you suppose is a vector with some elements equal to 1, has in fact no element equal to 1. If the output looks fine, then evaluate:
avhrr.sst(index_month)
If the output is not a vector of floating point elements, then maybe avhrr.sst is not what you think it is.
Check every expression for a given month index at first, so you are sure that the inputs are what you think they are, and that the outputs are valid. Once this works, embed it in the loop and try to debug the loop.
Also, try plotting seasonal_cycle first with e.g.
plot( seasonal_cycle ) ;
If you tried plotting s_cycle_month against t, I guess that it means that t is not 1:12. This is a little more complex to debug, because s_cycle_month is more complex than seasonal_cycle (you build the former by re-injecting the mean at positions that correspond to the current month apparently).

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