Plots by type/theme

Contents

• Cylindrical projection contour plots
  • 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
• Polar stereographic projections
  • Example 4: North Pole polar stereographic projection contour plot
  • Example 5: South Pole polar projection contour plot with bounding latitude
• Plots of latitude/longitude against pressure
  • 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
• Hovmöller plots
  • Example 10: Latitude-time Hovmöller plot
  • Example 11: Latitude-time subset view Hovmöller plot
  • Example 12: Longitude-time Hovmöller plot
• Vector and stream plots
  • 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
• Stipple plots
  • Example 17: Basic stipple plot
  • Example 18: Polar stipple plot
• Multiple plots
  • Example 19a: Multiple plots
  • Example 19b: Multiple plots with user-specified plot positions
  • Example 19c: Accomodating more than one colour bar
• Colour scales
  • User defined colour scales
  • Selecting colours for graph lines
  • Predefined colour scales
  • Perceptually uniform colour scales
  • NCAR Command Language - MeteoSwiss colour maps
  • NCAR Command Language - small color maps (<50 colours)
  • NCAR Command Language - large colour maps (>50 colours)
  • NCAR Command Language - Enhanced to help with colour blindness
  • Orography/bathymetry colour scales
  • IDL guide scales
• User-defined axes
  • Example 20: Case where user-defined axis labels are required
  • Example 21a: User-defined axes
• Rotated pole plots
  • Example 21b: Plot of rotated pole data
  • Example 22: Plot of rotated pole data on its native grid
  • Example 23b: Overlaying vectors over a rotated pole data plot
  • Example 23a: Rotated pole plot from data which is not CF Compliant
• Unstructured grids and UGRID
  • Example 24a: UGRID blockfill plot with LFRic cubed sphere mesh output
  • Example 24b: UGRID plot in the polar stereographic projection view
  • Example 24c: UGRID contour plot with LFRic cubed sphere mesh output
  • 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
• Line plots i.e. graphs
  • 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
• Projections in cf-plot
  • 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
• Trajectories
  • 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
• WRF data
  • Example 43: CF-compliant WRF model output data