.. _sphx_glr_auto_examples_plotting:

.. _plotting_examples:

Plotting examples
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Examples showing different ways to visualize your data.



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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example shows how to make an enhance plot for sounding data which includes a Skew-T plot, hodograph, and stability indicies.">

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  :doc:`/auto_examples/plotting/plot_enhanced_skewt`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Enhanced plot of a sounding</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This is a simple example for how to plot a histogram of Meteorological data, while using hist_kwargs parameter.">

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  :doc:`/auto_examples/plotting/plot_hist_kwargs`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Plot a histogram of Met data.</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This is a simple example for how to plot a timeseries of sounding data from the ARM SGP site.">

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  :doc:`/auto_examples/plotting/plot_sonde`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Plot a timeseries of sounding data</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Time-Height Scatter Plot">

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  :doc:`/auto_examples/plotting/plot_time_height_scatter`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Time-Height Scatter Plot</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Plot the ARM AAF flight path using the GeographicPlotDisplay">

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  :doc:`/auto_examples/plotting/plot_aaf_track`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Plot ARM AAF Flight Path</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Simple example for cleaning up a dataset and plotting the data and its QC flags">

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  .. image:: /auto_examples/plotting/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_qc_thumb.png
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  :doc:`/auto_examples/plotting/plot_qc`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Plotting QC Flags</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Plot up climate stripes plots from already existing climatologies from ARM data. Author: Adam Theisen">

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  :doc:`/auto_examples/plotting/plot_stripes`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Example plot using stripes</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Example shows how to plot up CCN droplet count in a size distribution plot.  Also shows how to add different plot types together using assign_to_figure_axis.">

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  .. image:: /auto_examples/plotting/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_size_distribution_thumb.png
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  :doc:`/auto_examples/plotting/plot_size_distribution`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Example Size Distribution Plots</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Investigate Temperature Quantiles using DistributionDisplay Violin Plots">

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  :doc:`/auto_examples/plotting/plot_violin`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Investigate Temperature Quantiles</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Example of how to read in MET data and plot up daytime temperature averages using the add_solar_variable function">

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  .. image:: /auto_examples/plotting/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_daytime_averages_thumb.png
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  :doc:`/auto_examples/plotting/plot_daytime_averages`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Calculate and plot daily daytime temperature averages</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example shows how to make a Skew-T plot from a sounding and calculate stability indicies.">

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  .. image:: /auto_examples/plotting/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_skewt_thumb.png
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  :doc:`/auto_examples/plotting/plot_skewt`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Skew-T plot of a sounding</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This is a simple example for how to plot multiple columns in a TimeseriesDisplay.">

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  .. image:: /auto_examples/plotting/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_multiple_column_thumb.png
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  :doc:`/auto_examples/plotting/plot_multiple_column`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Plot a timeseries of sounding data</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Example of how to read in MET data and plot histograms of wind speed and temperature grouped by day.">

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  :doc:`/auto_examples/plotting/plot_days`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Calculate and plot wind rose plots separated by day.</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example shows how to plot on the secondary y-axis using Matplotlib functionality.  The secondary_y functionality has been removed from ACT.">

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  :doc:`/auto_examples/plotting/plot_secondary_y`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Secondary Y-Axis Plotting</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Calculate the percentages of different aerosols in a Aerosol Chemical Speciation (AOS) monitor dataset and view the percentages in a pie chart.">

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  .. image:: /auto_examples/plotting/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_pie_chart_thumb.png
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  :doc:`/auto_examples/plotting/plot_pie_chart`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Calculate and View Aerosol Percentages</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This is an example of how to use some different aspects of ACT&#x27;s plotting tools as well as Xarray&#x27;s tools.">

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  :doc:`/auto_examples/plotting/plot_examples`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Xarray Plotting Examples</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="In this example, the VISST data are used to plot up cross-sectional slices through the multi-dimensional dataset">

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  :doc:`/auto_examples/plotting/plot_xsection`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Multidimensional cross sections</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This is an example of how to download and plot ceiliometer data from the SGP site over Oklahoma.">

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  :doc:`/auto_examples/plotting/plot_ceil`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Simple plot of 2D data</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Compare MET temperature and RH using a heatmap and scatter plot.">

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  :doc:`/auto_examples/plotting/plot_heatmap`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Example plot using heat maps</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Simple example for working with satellite data. It is recommended that users explore other satellite specific libraries suchas SatPy.">

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  :doc:`/auto_examples/plotting/plot_satellite`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Using ACT for Satellite data</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example shows how to make a Skew-T plot from a sounding and calculate stability indicies.">

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  :doc:`/auto_examples/plotting/plot_skewt_with_text`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Skew-T plot of a sounding</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This is an example of how to prepare and plot data for a contour plot">

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  :doc:`/auto_examples/plotting/plot_contour`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Spatial contour plot</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Compare Aircraft Airspeeds via the DistributionDisplay Scatter Plot">

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  :doc:`/auto_examples/plotting/plot_scatter`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Compare Aircraft Airspeeds</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This is an example of how to display wind rose and barb timeseries from multiple days worth of sounding data.">

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  :doc:`/auto_examples/plotting/plot_rh_timeseries`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Plot winds and relative humidity from sounding data</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This is an example of how to display a data rose. As can be seen in the final plot, there are two major bullseyes of data, one around 0ºC to the Northeast and another around 15ºC to the South. This tells us that we get lower temperatures when winds are out of the N/NE as would be expected at this location.  This can be extended to easily review other types of data as well like aerosols and fluxes.">

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  :doc:`/auto_examples/plotting/plot_data_rose`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Data rose plot</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This is an example of how to display wind rose and barb timeseries from multiple days worth of sounding data.">

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  :doc:`/auto_examples/plotting/plot_wind_rose`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Windrose and windbarb timeseries plot</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Plot the Present Weather Code on Precipitation Accumulation">

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  :doc:`/auto_examples/plotting/plot_presentweathercode`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Plot Present Weather Code</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Simple examples for plotting state variable using flag_values and flag_meanings.">

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  :doc:`/auto_examples/plotting/plot_state_variable`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Plotting state variables</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This is an example about how to work with netCDF groups. Xarray does not natively read netCDF group files, but it does have the ability to read the data with a few independent calls.">

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  :doc:`/auto_examples/plotting/plot_groups`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Working with netCDF groups</div>
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.. toctree::
   :hidden:

   /auto_examples/plotting/plot_enhanced_skewt
   /auto_examples/plotting/plot_hist_kwargs
   /auto_examples/plotting/plot_sonde
   /auto_examples/plotting/plot_time_height_scatter
   /auto_examples/plotting/plot_aaf_track
   /auto_examples/plotting/plot_qc
   /auto_examples/plotting/plot_stripes
   /auto_examples/plotting/plot_size_distribution
   /auto_examples/plotting/plot_violin
   /auto_examples/plotting/plot_daytime_averages
   /auto_examples/plotting/plot_skewt
   /auto_examples/plotting/plot_multiple_column
   /auto_examples/plotting/plot_days
   /auto_examples/plotting/plot_secondary_y
   /auto_examples/plotting/plot_pie_chart
   /auto_examples/plotting/plot_examples
   /auto_examples/plotting/plot_xsection
   /auto_examples/plotting/plot_ceil
   /auto_examples/plotting/plot_heatmap
   /auto_examples/plotting/plot_satellite
   /auto_examples/plotting/plot_skewt_with_text
   /auto_examples/plotting/plot_contour
   /auto_examples/plotting/plot_scatter
   /auto_examples/plotting/plot_rh_timeseries
   /auto_examples/plotting/plot_data_rose
   /auto_examples/plotting/plot_wind_rose
   /auto_examples/plotting/plot_presentweathercode
   /auto_examples/plotting/plot_state_variable
   /auto_examples/plotting/plot_groups