setvars

cfplot.setvars(**kwargs)

Set plotting variables and their defaults.

file=None - output file name

title_fontsize=None - title fontsize, default=15

title_fontweight='normal' - title fontweight

text_fontsize='normal' - text font size, default=11

text_fontweight='normal' - text font weight

axis_label_fontsize=None - axis label fontsize, default=11

axis_label_fontweight='normal' - axis font weight

legend_text_size='11' - legend text size

legend_text_weight='normal' - legend text weight

colorbar_fontsize='11' - colorbar text size

colorbar_fontweight='normal' - colorbar font weight

legend_text_weight='normal' - legend text weight

master_title_fontsize=30 - master title font size

master_title_fontweight='normal' - master title font weight

continent_thickness=1.5 - default=1.5

continent_color='k' - default='k' (black)

continent_linestyle='solid' - default='k' (black)

viewer='display' - use ImageMagick display program

'matplotlib' to use image widget to view the picture

tspace_year=None - time axis spacing in years

tspace_month=None - time axis spacing in months

tspace_day=None - time axis spacing in days

tspace_hour=None - time axis spacing in hours

xtick_label_rotation=0 - rotation of xtick labels

xtick_label_align='center' - alignment of xtick labels

ytick_label_rotation=0 - rotation of ytick labels

ytick_label_align='right' - alignment of ytick labels

cs_uniform=True - make a uniform differential colour scale

master_title=None - master title text

master_title_location=[0.5,0.95] - master title location

dpi=None - dots per inch setting

land_color=None - land colour

ocean_color=None - ocean colour

lake_color=None - lake colour

feature_zorder - plotting zorder for above three features, default=999

rotated_grid_spacing=10 - rotated grid spacing in degrees

rotated_deg_spacing=0.75 - rotated grid spacing between graticule dots

rotated_deg_tkickness=1.0 - rotated grid thickness for longitude and

latitude lines

rotated_continents=True - draw rotated continents

rotated_grid=True - draw rotated grid

rotated_grid=1.0 - TODO, default 1.0

rotated_labels=True - draw rotated grid labels

legend_frame=True - draw a frame around a lineplot legend

legend_frame_edge_color='k' - color for the legend frame

legend_frame_face_color=None - color for the legend background

degsym=True - add degree symbol to longitude and latitude axis labels

axis_width=None - width of line for the axes

grid=True - draw grid

grid_x_spacing=60 - grid longitude spacing in degrees

grid_x_spacing=30 - grid latitude spacing in degrees

grid_colour='k' - grid colour

grid_linestyle='--' - grid line style

grid_zorder=100 - plotting order for the grid lines

grid_thickness=1.0 - grid thickness

tight=False - remove whitespace around the plot

level_spacing=None - default contour level spacing - takes 'linear',

'log', 'loglike', 'outlier' and 'inspect'

Use setvars() to reset to the defaults

Returns:

name