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Visualizing OutputVars

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Masking part of the output in GeoMakie

When performing ocean or land simulations, it is often convenient to hide the other component (e.g., hide the ocean and focus on the continents). For GeoMakie plots, there is a direct way to accomplish this. In this section, we discuss this feature.

The main GeoMakie plots are Visualize.contour2D_on_globe! and Visualize.heatmap2D_on_globe!. Both these functions take a mask argument. By default, mask is nothing, meaning that the entire output is displayed on the globe. Alternatively, mask can be a collection of polygons that can be plotted with Makie.poly. ClimaAnalysis comes with the most important ones Visualize.oceanmask and Visualize.landmask, to hide ocean and continents respectively.

For example, suppose var it the variable we want to plot with a ocean mask

import ClimaAnalysis.Visualize: contour2D_on_globe!, oceanmask
import ClimaAnalysis.Utils: kwargs as ca_kwargs
import GeoMakie
import CairoMakie

fig = CairoMakie.Figure()

contour2D_on_globe!(fig,
                    var,
                    mask = oceanmask(),
                    more_kwargs = Dict(:mask => ca_kwargs(color = :blue)),
                   )

CairoMakie.save("myfigure.pdf", fig)

In this example, we plotted var on the globe and overplotted a blue ocean. ca_kwargs (Utils.kwargs) is a convenience function to pass keyword arguments more easily.

The output might look something like:

oceanmask

Plotting bias

After computing the bias between observational and simulation data, you may want to plot the bias and display information such as the root mean squared error (RMSE) and the global bias in the plot. To do this, you use the function plot_bias_on_globe!(fig, sim, obs). In the example below, we plot the bias between our simulation and some observations stored in ta_1d_average.nc.

import ClimaAnalysis
import ClimaAnalysis.Visualize: plot_bias_on_globe!
import GeoMakie
import CairoMakie

obs_var = ClimaAnalysis.OutputVar("ta_1d_average.nc")
sim_var = ClimaAnalysis.get(ClimaAnalysis.simdir("simulation_output"), "ta")

fig = CairoMakie.Figure()
plot_bias_on_globe!(fig, sim_var, obs_var)
CairoMakie.save("myfigure.pdf", fig)

The output produces something like:

biasplot

We can also plot the bias using an ocean mask. This also means we compute the bias only over land.

import ClimaAnalysis
import ClimaAnalysis.Visualize: plot_bias_on_globe!, oceanmask
import GeoMakie
import CairoMakie

obs_var = ClimaAnalysis.OutputVar("ta_1d_average.nc")
sim_var = ClimaAnalysis.get(ClimaAnalysis.simdir("simulation_output"), "ta")

fig = CairoMakie.Figure()
plot_bias_on_globe!(fig,
                    var,
                    mask = oceanmask(),
                    more_kwargs = Dict(:mask => ca_kwargs(color = :blue)),
                   )
CairoMakie.save("myfigure.pdf", fig)

The output produces something like:

biasplot_oceanmask