I am trying to plot the surface temperature from a NetCDF file using Cartopy and contourf. The domain of my plot is 30S to 60N and 90.044495E to 89.95552E (so all the way around the Earth centered on 90W). Here is a section of my code:
import numpy as np
import wrf as wrf
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import cartopy.crs as ccrs
cart_proj = wrf.get_cartopy(skintemp)
lats, lons = wrf.latlon_coords(skintemp)
ax = plt.axes(projection=cart_proj)
ax.coastlines('50m', linewidth=0.8)
clevels = np.linspace(230,300,8)
cmap = plt.cm.YlOrRd
contours_fill = plt.contourf(wrf.to_np(lons), wrf.to_np(lats), skintemp, cmap=cmap, levels = clevels, transform=ccrs.PlateCarree(),extend="both")
cbar = plt.colorbar(contours_fill, shrink = .65, orientation='horizontal', pad=.05)
plt.show()
skintemp, lats and lons are all 2D arrays with dimensions (454, 1483), ordered (lat,lon), and cart_proj = wrf.projection.MercatorWithLatTS.
When I show the plot, it's distorted and incorrect:
I have determined that the issue has to do with the non-zero central longitude. The problem appears to be when the longitude changes from 179.90082 to -179.85632. lons.values[0,370]=179.90082, so I changed contourf to the following:
contours_fill = plt.contourf(wrf.to_np(lons[:,0:371]), wrf.to_np(lats[:,0:371]), skintemp[:,0:371], cmap=cmap, levels = clevels, transform=ccrs.PlateCarree(),extend="both")
which produces the following correct figure:
And when I change contourf to:
contours_fill = plt.contourf(wrf.to_np(lons[:,371:-1]), wrf.to_np(lats[:,371:-1]), skintemp[:,371:-1], cmap=cmap, levels = clevels, transform=ccrs.PlateCarree(),extend="both")
I get the other part of the map:
I cannot seem to get both parts of the map to display correctly together. I tried using contourf twice in the same plot, one for each section of the map, but only the last contourf line plots. Any help would be much appreciated!
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I am trying to do a scatterplot on a map with Robinson Projection. However, the produced map is cut off at the side and I cannot figure out why. I did not have any problems when doing contour plots on similar maps. The longitude and latitude for the points, I want to plot, are stored in two seperate lists with floats (lon, lat), like this:
lon = [2.906250000000000000e+02, 2.906250000000000000e+02, 2.906250000000000000e+02, ...]
lat = [-5.315959537001968016e+01, -5.129437713895114825e+01,-4.942915369712304852e+01, ...]
import cartopy.crs as ccrs
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
fig_scale = 2
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(4*fig_scale,3*fig_scale))
gs1 = plt.GridSpec(2, 1,height_ratios=[1, 0.05])
axes = plt.subplot(gs1[0,0], projection=ccrs.Robinson(central_longitude=0.0))
mappab = plt.scatter(x=lon, y=lat,
transform=ccrs.PlateCarree())
axes.coastlines(color='grey')
axes.gridlines()
plt.show()
I have trouble with the ortho projection and pcolormesh.
It should plot a mesh of grid points. Instead, in the upper right portion of the sphere it plots strange lines instead of grid points. The mapping of the mesh looks off.
I tried the code below.
from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.clf()
dpp =1 # degrees per pixel
lons = np.arange(-180,180+dpp,dpp)
lats = -1*np.arange(-90,90+dpp,dpp)
m = Basemap(projection='ortho', lon_0=0, lat_0=-60, resolution='l')
data = np.random.random((np.size(lats), np.size(lons)))
lons, lats = np.meshgrid(lons, lats)
x, y = m(lons, lats)
im = m.pcolormesh(x, y, data, latlon=False, cmap='RdBu')
#im = m.pcolormesh(lons, lats, data, latlon=True, cmap='RdBu')
m.colorbar(im)
plt.show()
I obtain the following plot:
The random noise should be mapped onto the entire sphere, but there is clearly an error in the upper right of the ortho map.
Does anyone else get this error with the included code?
Since basemap would require you to manually filter out unwanted data (those that are "behind the globe"), here is how to do the same with cartopy.
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import cartopy.crs as ccrs
proj = ccrs.Orthographic(central_longitude=0.0, central_latitude=-60.0)
plt.figure(figsize=(3, 3))
ax = plt.axes(projection=proj)
dpp =1
lons = np.arange(-180,180+dpp,dpp)
lats = 1*np.arange(-90,90+dpp,dpp)
data = np.random.random((np.size(lats), np.size(lons)))
lons, lats = np.meshgrid(lons, lats)
im = ax.pcolormesh(lons, lats, data, cmap='RdBu', transform=ccrs.PlateCarree())
ax.coastlines(resolution='110m')
ax.gridlines()
plt.show()
A fix to Basemap was suggested in the github basemap thread here
I'm trying to write a function to display astronomical images with a colorbar on the top (automaticly with the same length of the x-axis).
I'm having problem because when I try to put the tick on the top it doesn't do anything...it keeps the tick on the bottom of the colorbar (and also the tick on the y-axis of the colobar).
I think that could be a problem with the WCS coordinate of the x-axis, because when i try to do it without the projection it work well!
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from astropy import wcs
from matplotlib.colors import PowerNorm
from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1 import make_axes_locatable
from matplotlib import cm
#WCS coordinate system
w = wcs.WCS(naxis=2)
w.wcs.crpix = [23.5, 23.5]
w.wcs.cdelt = np.array([-0.0035, 0.0035])
w.wcs.crval = [266.8451, -28.151658]
w.wcs.ctype = ["RA---TAN", "DEC--TAN"]
w.wcs.set_pv([(2, 1, 45.0)])
#generate an array as image test
data = (np.arange(10000).reshape((100,100)))
#display image
fig = plt.figure()
ax = plt.gca(projection=w)
graf = ax.imshow(data, origin='lower', cmap=cm.viridis, norm=PowerNorm(1))
#colorbar
divider = make_axes_locatable(ax)
cax = divider.append_axes("top", size="5%")
cbar = fig.colorbar(graf, cax=cax, orientation='horizontal')
cax.xaxis.set_ticks_position('top')
fig.show()
Thanks!
You can fix this issue using matplotlib's axes class.
...
import matplotlib.axes as maxes
cax = divider.append_axes("top", size="5%", axes_class=maxes.Axes)
...
You need to use the internal machinery of the WCSAxes to handle the ticks in the WCS projection. It looks like WCSAxes handles the colorbar ticks through a coordinate map container (you can find it in cbar.ax.coords) instead of the xaxis/yaxis attributes (that don't seem to be used much).
So, after running your code, the following trick worked for me and the xticks moved up:
c_x = cbar.ax.coords['x']
c_x.set_ticklabel_position('t')
cbar.update_normal(cax)
To get something like this to work, I needed a few additional parameters:
from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1 import make_axes_locatable
divider = make_axes_locatable(ax)
cax = divider.append_axes("right", size="5%", pad=0.05)
cax.coords[0].grid(False)
cax.coords[1].grid(False)
cax.tick_params(direction='in')
cax.coords[0].set_ticks(alpha=0, color='w', size=0, values=[]*u.dimensionless_unscaled)
cax.coords[1].set_ticklabel_position('r')
cax.coords[1].set_axislabel_position('r')
because the default axis gad the grid on, the labels to the left, and x-axis labels enabled. I'm not sure why the original post didn't have issues with this.
I'd like to draw a (vertical) colorbar, which has two different scales (corresponding to two different units for the same quantity) on each side. Think Fahrenheit on one side and Celsius on the other side. Obviously, I'd need to specify the ticks for each side individually.
Any idea how I can do this?
That should get you started:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
# generate random data
x = np.random.randint(0,200,(10,10))
plt.pcolormesh(x)
# create the colorbar
# the aspect of the colorbar is set to 'equal', we have to set it to 'auto',
# otherwise twinx() will do weird stuff.
cbar = plt.colorbar()
pos = cbar.ax.get_position()
cbar.ax.set_aspect('auto')
# create a second axes instance and set the limits you need
ax2 = cbar.ax.twinx()
ax2.set_ylim([-2,1])
# resize the colorbar (otherwise it overlays the plot)
pos.x0 +=0.05
cbar.ax.set_position(pos)
ax2.set_position(pos)
plt.show()
If you create a subplot for the colorbar, you can create a twin axes for that subplot and manipulate it like a normal axes.
import matplotlib.colors as mcolors
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
x = np.linspace(-1,2.7)
X,Y = np.meshgrid(x,x)
Z = np.exp(-X**2-Y**2)*.9+0.1
fig, (ax, cax) = plt.subplots(ncols=2, gridspec_kw={"width_ratios":[15,1]})
im =ax.imshow(Z, vmin=0.1, vmax=1)
cbar = plt.colorbar(im, cax=cax)
cax2 = cax.twinx()
ticks=np.arange(0.1,1.1,0.1)
iticks=1./np.array([10,3,2,1.5,1])
cbar.set_ticks(ticks)
cbar.set_label("z")
cbar.ax.yaxis.set_label_position("left")
cax2.set_ylim(0.1,1)
cax2.set_yticks(iticks)
cax2.set_yticklabels(1./iticks)
cax2.set_ylabel("1/z")
plt.show()
Note that in newer version of matplotlib, the above answers no long work (as #Ryan Skene pointed out). I'm using v3.3.2. The secondary_yaxis function works for the colorbars in the same way as for regular plot axes and gives one colorbar with two scales: https://matplotlib.org/stable/api/_as_gen/matplotlib.axes.Axes.secondary_yaxis.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.secondary_yaxis
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
# generate random data
x = np.random.randint(0,200,(10,10)) #let's assume these are temperatures in Fahrenheit
im = plt.imshow(x)
# create the colorbar
cbar = plt.colorbar(im,pad=0.1) #you may need to adjust this padding for the secondary colorbar label[enter image description here][1]
cbar.set_label('Temperature ($^\circ$F)')
# define functions that relate the two colorbar scales
# e.g., Celcius to Fahrenheit and vice versa
def F_to_C(x):
return (x-32)*5/9
def C_to_F(x):
return (x*9/5)+32
# create a second axes
cbar2 = cbar.ax.secondary_yaxis('left',functions=(F_to_C,C_to_F))
cbar2.set_ylabel('Temperatrue ($\circ$C)')
plt.show()
I am using an inset axis for my colorbar and, for some reason, I found the above to answers no longer worked as of v3.4.2. The twinx took up the entire original subplot.
So I just replicated the inset axis (instead of using twinx) and increased the zorder on the original inset.
axkws = dict(zorder=2)
cax = inset_axes(
ax, width="100%", height="100%", bbox_to_anchor=bbox,
bbox_transform=ax.transAxes, axes_kwargs=axkws
)
cbar = self.fig.colorbar(mpl.cm.ScalarMappable(cmap=cmap), cax=cax)
cbar.ax.yaxis.set_ticks_position('left')
caxx = inset_axes(
ax, width="100%", height="100%",
bbox_to_anchor=bbox, bbox_transform=ax.transAxes
)
caxx.yaxis.set_ticks_position('right')
I have created a histogram with matplotlib using the pyplot.hist() function. I would like to add a Poison error square root of bin height (sqrt(binheight)) to the bars. How can I do this?
The return tuple of .hist() includes return[2] -> a list of 1 Patch objects. I could only find out that it is possible to add errors to bars created via pyplot.bar().
Indeed you need to use bar. You can use to output of hist and plot it as a bar:
import numpy as np
import pylab as plt
data = np.array(np.random.rand(1000))
y,binEdges = np.histogram(data,bins=10)
bincenters = 0.5*(binEdges[1:]+binEdges[:-1])
menStd = np.sqrt(y)
width = 0.05
plt.bar(bincenters, y, width=width, color='r', yerr=menStd)
plt.show()
Alternative Solution
You can also use a combination of pyplot.errorbar() and drawstyle keyword argument. The code below creates a plot of the histogram using a stepped line plot. There is a marker in the center of each bin and each bin has the requisite Poisson errorbar.
import numpy
import pyplot
x = numpy.random.rand(1000)
y, bin_edges = numpy.histogram(x, bins=10)
bin_centers = 0.5*(bin_edges[1:] + bin_edges[:-1])
pyplot.errorbar(
bin_centers,
y,
yerr = y**0.5,
marker = '.',
drawstyle = 'steps-mid-'
)
pyplot.show()
My personal opinion
When plotting the results of multiple histograms on the the same figure, line plots are easier to distinguish. In addition, they look nicer when plotting with a yscale='log'.