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This is the new permanent home of the cf-plot documentation: please consult this and not the old frozen version under 'http://ajheaps.github.io'.

cf-plot 3.4.0 documentation

Introduction
Installation
Plots by type/theme
Gallery of examples
User guide

Introduction
Installation
Plots by type/theme
Gallery of examples
User guide
Advanced use
API reference
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Example 1: Basic contour plot in default projection
Example 2: Basic blockfill plot in default projection
Example 3: Contour plot with altered map limits and levels
Example 4: North Pole polar stereographic projection contour plot
Example 5: South Pole polar projection contour plot with bounding latitude
Example 6: Latitude-pressure plot at set longitude
Example 7: Latitude-pressure plot over zonal mean
Example 8: Latitude against log of pressure over longitude zonal mean
Example 9: Longitude-pressure plot over latitude mean
Example 10: Latitude-time Hovmöller plot
Example 11: Latitude-time subset view Hovmöller plot
Example 12: Longitude-time Hovmöller plot
Example 13: Basic vector plot
Example 14: Vector plot overlaid on a contour map
Example 15: Polar projection vector plot
Example 16a: Zonal vector plot
Example 16b: Basic stream plot
Example 16c: Stream plot in a colour scale
Example 17: Basic stipple plot
Example 18: Polar stipple plot
Example 19a: Multiple plots
Example 19b: Multiple plots with user-specified plot positions
Example 19c: Accomodating more than one colour bar
Example 20: Case where user-defined axis labels are required
Example 21a: User-defined axes
Example 21b: Plot of rotated pole data
Example 22: Plot of rotated pole data on its native grid
Example 23a: Rotated pole plot from data which is not CF Compliant
Example 23b: Overlaying vectors over a rotated pole data plot
Example 24a: UGRID blockfill plot with LFRic cubed sphere mesh output
Example 24b: UGRID plot in the polar stereographic projection view
Example 25: UGRID contour plot with ORCA 2 output
Example 26a: Contour plot based on discrete feature values
Example 26b: Contour plot from discrete feature values with labelling
Example 27: Basic line plot
Example 28: Line plot with a legend
Example 29: Time series line plot
Example 30: Line plot with two x axes
Example 31: UKCP projection
Example 32: UKCP projection with blockfill
Example 33: OSGB and EuroPP projections
Example 34: Cropping the Lambert Conformal Conic (LCC) projection
Example 35: Mollweide projection
Example 36: Mercator projection
Example 37: Orthographic projection
Example 38: Robinson projection
Example 39: Basic track plotting
Example 39b: plotting a single (1D) DSG trajectory
Example 40: Tracks in the polar stereographic projection
Example 41: Feature propagation over Europe
Example 42a: Tracks with labelled data points
Example 42b: Tracks displayed in a colour scale
Example 43: CF-compliant WRF model output data

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Example 36:...

Example 36: Mercator projection#

Plotting using the Mercator projection#

f = cf.read(f"cfplot_data/tas_A1.nc")[0]

cfp.mapset(proj="merc")

cfp.con(f.subspace(time=15))

../_images/ref_fig_36.png

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Example 37: Orthographic projection

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