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ACT Example Gallery
===================

This gallery houses examples on different use cases for act including
downloading data from web APIs, visualization various types of data,
and more.  If there are specific use cases you would like to see examples
of, please head on over to the `ACT discussion page <https://github.com/ARM-DOE/ACT/discussions>`_ on GitHub.

If your looking to contribute, the templates directory found `here <https://arm-doe.github.io/ACT/source/auto_examples/templates/index.html>`_
provides templates for the examples gallery python files. For a template for
creating Jupyter notebooks for ACT tutorials, blog posts and more, that
template can be found `here <https://github.com/ARM-Development/ARM-Notebooks/blob/main/Templates/notebook-template.ipynb>`_



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Correction examples
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Examples showing different meteorology corrections.



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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example shows how to calculate course and speed over ground of the ship and use it to correct the wind speed and direction data.">

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_corrections_plot_correct_ship_wind_data.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Correct wind data for ship motion</div>
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Discovery examples
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Examples showing different ways to discover data.



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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example shows how to download data from NASA&#x27;s MicroPulsed Lidar Network">

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  .. image:: /source/auto_examples/discovery/images/thumb/sphx_glr_download_mplnet_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_discovery_download_mplnet.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">NASA MPLNET</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example shows how to plot timeseries of ASOS data from Chicago O&#x27;Hare airport.">

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  .. image:: /source/auto_examples/discovery/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_asos_temp_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_discovery_plot_asos_temp.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Query and plot ASOS data</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example shows how to get IMPROVE data for the system located at ARM&#x27;s Southern Great Plains site.">

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  .. image:: /source/auto_examples/discovery/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_improve_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_discovery_plot_improve.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">IMPROVE Data</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Author: Zach Sherman, Adam Theisen">

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  .. image:: /source/auto_examples/discovery/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_noaa_fmcw_moment_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_discovery_plot_noaa_fmcw_moment.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">NOAA FMCW and parsivel plot</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example shows how to download data from NEON and ARM 2m surface meteorology stations on the North Slope and plot them">

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  .. image:: /source/auto_examples/discovery/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_neon_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_discovery_plot_neon.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">NEON Data</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example shows the different ways to pull air quality information from EPA&#x27;s AirNow API for a station near to SGP">

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  .. image:: /source/auto_examples/discovery/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_airnow_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_discovery_plot_airnow.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Airnow Data</div>
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Input/Output Examples
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Examples showing different ways to read and save data.



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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example shows how to read and plot a backtrajectory calculated by the NOAA HYSPLIT model over Houston.">

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_io_plot_hysplit.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Read and plot a HYSPLIT trajectory file from a HYSPlIT run.</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Example of how to read in raw data from the mini-MPL and plot out the PPI by converting it to PyART">

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_io_read_raw_minimpl.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Read and plot a PPI from raw mini-MPL data</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example shows how to read and display Sodar data from the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) ATMOS site.">

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  .. image:: /source/auto_examples/io/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_sodar_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_io_plot_sodar.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Read and plot a Sodar file</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This data shows how to read in SurfRad data from the urls and plot the data up in a time series">

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  .. image:: /source/auto_examples/io/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_surfrad_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_io_plot_surfrad.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Plot SurfRad Data</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example shows how to read and display International Consortium for Atmospheric Research on Transport and Transformation (ICARTT) file format standards V2.0">

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  .. image:: /source/auto_examples/io/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_icartt_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_io_plot_icartt.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Plot ICARTT Formatted Files</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Author: Adam Theisen">

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_io_plot_create_arm_ds.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Create a dataset to mimic ARM file formats</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This script shows how to convert ARM data to AmeriFlux format using an ACT function, and write it out to csv.  More information on AmeriFlux and their file formats and naming conventions can be found here: https://ameriflux.lbl.gov/">

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_io_plot_convert_ameriflux.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Convert Data to AmeriFlux Format</div>
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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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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_plotting_plot_enhanced_skewt.py`

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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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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_plotting_plot_hist_kwargs.py`

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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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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_plotting_plot_sonde.py`

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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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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_plotting_plot_time_height_scatter.py`

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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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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_plotting_plot_aaf_track.py`

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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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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_plotting_plot_qc.py`

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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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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_plotting_plot_stripes.py`

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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:: /source/auto_examples/plotting/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_size_distribution_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_plotting_plot_size_distribution.py`

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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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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_plotting_plot_violin.py`

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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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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_plotting_plot_daytime_averages.py`

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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:: /source/auto_examples/plotting/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_skewt_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_plotting_plot_skewt.py`

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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:: /source/auto_examples/plotting/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_multiple_column_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_plotting_plot_multiple_column.py`

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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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  .. image:: /source/auto_examples/plotting/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_days_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_plotting_plot_days.py`

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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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  .. image:: /source/auto_examples/plotting/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_secondary_y_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_plotting_plot_secondary_y.py`

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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:: /source/auto_examples/plotting/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_pie_chart_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_plotting_plot_pie_chart.py`

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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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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_plotting_plot_examples.py`

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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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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_plotting_plot_xsection.py`

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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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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_plotting_plot_ceil.py`

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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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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_plotting_plot_heatmap.py`

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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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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_plotting_plot_satellite.py`

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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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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_plotting_plot_skewt_with_text.py`

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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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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_plotting_plot_contour.py`

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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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  .. image:: /source/auto_examples/plotting/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_scatter_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_plotting_plot_scatter.py`

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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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  .. image:: /source/auto_examples/plotting/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_rh_timeseries_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_plotting_plot_rh_timeseries.py`

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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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  .. image:: /source/auto_examples/plotting/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_data_rose_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_plotting_plot_data_rose.py`

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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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  .. image:: /source/auto_examples/plotting/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_wind_rose_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_plotting_plot_wind_rose.py`

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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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  .. image:: /source/auto_examples/plotting/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_presentweathercode_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_plotting_plot_presentweathercode.py`

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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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  .. image:: /source/auto_examples/plotting/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_state_variable_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_plotting_plot_state_variable.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Plotting state variables</div>
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Quality Control Examples
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Examples showing different ways to apply quality control to your data.



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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Simple example for querying the ARM DQR webservice and plotting up the results">

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  .. image:: /source/auto_examples/qc/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_dqr_qc_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_qc_plot_dqr_qc.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Query the ARM DQR webservice</div>
    </div>


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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This is an example of how to use 2 dimentional DataArrays containing multiple 1 dimentional data, including a summary quality control plot showing the tests for each 1 dimentional data slice. This example uses the force_line_plot keyword which will force multiple 1 dimentional plots for each element along the second dimention of the non-time dimention.">

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  .. image:: /source/auto_examples/qc/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_force_line_qc_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_qc_plot_force_line_qc.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Forcing line plots with 2D data and QC</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Simple example for applying BSRN QC and plotting the data and the corresponding QC flags using colorblind friendly colors. https://bsrn.awi.de/data/quality-checks/">

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Retrieval examples
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Examples showing different ways to retrieve fields from data.



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Utility examples
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Examples showing different helpful utilies in ACT.



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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Calculate and plot aerosol percentages.</div>
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Workflow examples
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Examples showing full workflows, including reading, applying corrections, and visualizations.



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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Transformations and QC</div>
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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Plot multiple datasets</div>
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.. toctree::
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   /source/auto_examples/corrections/index.rst
   /source/auto_examples/discovery/index.rst
   /source/auto_examples/io/index.rst
   /source/auto_examples/plotting/index.rst
   /source/auto_examples/qc/index.rst
   /source/auto_examples/retrievals/index.rst
   /source/auto_examples/utils/index.rst
   /source/auto_examples/workflows/index.rst


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