Calculate and View Aerosol Percentages#

Calculate the percentages of different aerosols in a Aerosol Chemical Speciation (AOS) monitor dataset and view the percentages in a pie chart.

Written: Zach Sherman

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from arm_test_data import DATASETS

import act
from act.io.arm import read_arm_netcdf

# Read an ARM AOS dataset
filename = DATASETS.fetch('sgpaosacsmE13.b2.20230420.000109.nc')
ds = read_arm_netcdf(filename)

# Let us print out the fields in the dataset and see what it contains.
print(ds.data_vars.keys())

# Knowing what fields the dataset contains, let's create a list of fields
# to use in the plot.

fields = ['sulfate', 'ammonium', 'nitrate', 'chloride']

# We also want to provide some keyword arguments to avoid invalid data such
# as negative values.
threshold = 0.0
fill_value = 0.0

# Create a DistributionDisplay object to compare fields
display = act.plotting.DistributionDisplay(ds)

# We can set one of the slices to explode and give it a nice shadow.
explode = (0, 0.1, 0, 0)
shadow = True

# Create a pie chart using the fields list. The percentages of the
# fields will be calculated using act.utils.calculate_percentages.
display.plot_pie_chart(
    fields,
    threshold=threshold,
    fill_value=fill_value,
    explode=explode,
    shadow=True,
)
plt.show()

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