[CLIMATE-92] Overhaul to plots.py

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Incomplete
• Affects Version/s: 0.1-incubating
• Fix Version/s: 0.1-incubating
• Component/s: analysis, metrics, visualization
• Assignee: Chris A. Mattmann
• Reporter: Alex Goodman
• Created: 10/Jun/13 23:26
• Updated: 18/Jun/13 16:46
• Resolved: 18/Jun/13 16:46

Description

Our current implementation of plotting functions is very barebones. Currently there is only support for a limited number of plots (time series and contour maps). Currently I plan on doing at least the following things to address this:

-Convert all routines using PyNGL to matplotlib (as per CLIMATE-55)
-Add support for a larger variety of plots (such as pseudocolor plots and Taylor diagrams, eg Kim et. al)
-Integration of multiple datasets (subplots with several models / observations, spaghetti plots, etc)

And perhaps several other ideas after later discussions. Currently I have already redone the routine for drawing contour maps by replacing PyNGL methods with Basemap. (and deprecated old or unused ones).