Visualization and analysis examples
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Plotting
We have created several Python plotting example scripts and notebooks that you can modify for your own research needs.
Comparing diagnostics from different simulations
| Script or notebook | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|
| compare_diagnostics.ipynb | Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard) | Jupyter notebook that illustrates the steps involved in comparing output from two different GEOS-Chem simulations. |
Plotting timeseries data
| Script or notebook | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|
| plot_timeseries.py | Bob Yantosca (Harvard) | Example script that plots timeseries from two different GEOS-Chem diagnostic collections (ConcAboveSfc, SpeciesConc) at a specified location. This is a good example of the using Python xarray and matplotlib packages to create line plots. |
Plotting 2D data
| Script or notebook | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|
| plot_global.py | Daniel Rothenberg | Creates a global average plot. Using cartopy_ we can easily visualize gridded model output on maps with different cartographic projections, and then configure them with any aesthetics or features such as continents, geopolitical borders, gridlines, and more. |
| plot_seasons.py | Daniel Rothenberg | For a given field timeseries, compute seasonal averages over all data and plot each average on a four-panel figure. |
| quickplot.py | Bob Yantosca (Harvard) | Creates a quick-and-dirty plot of a variable in a netCDF (HDF5, GRIB, etc. file). Uses xarray. |
Working with files
Please see the following scripts for examples on using Python to manipulate files.
| Script or notebook | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|
| bpch2nc.py | Bob Yantosca (Harvard) | Creates a netCDF file from data contained in a GEOS-Chem binary punch (aka "bpch") file. |
| concatenate_files.py | Bob Yantosca (Harvard) | Uses xarray to concatenate several files into a single Dataset. |
