cmocean 1.2

Colormaps for Oceanography

Documentation available: [http://matplotlib.org/cmocean/](http://matplotlib.org/cmocean/).

We have a paper with guidelines to colormap selection for your application and a description of the cmocean colormaps: Thyng, K. M., Greene, C. A., Hetland, R. D., Zimmerle, H. M., & DiMarco, S. F. (2016). True colors of oceanography. Oceanography, 29(3), 10. link: [http://tos.org/oceanography/assets/docs/29-3_thyng.pdf](http://tos.org/oceanography/assets/docs/29-3_thyng.pdf)

Besides Python, the cmocean colormaps are also available:

• For [MATLAB](http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/57773-cmocean-perceptually-uniform-colormaps) by [Chad Greene](http://www.chadagreene.com/)

• For R: [Oce](http://dankelley.github.io/oce/) oceanographic analysis package by [Dan Kelley](http://www.dal.ca/faculty/science/oceanography/people/faculty/daniel-e-kelley.html) and [Clark Richards](http://clarkrichards.org/)

• For [Ocean Data Viewer](https://github.com/kthyng/cmocean-odv)

• For Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) at [cpt-city](http://soliton.vm.bytemark.co.uk/pub/cpt-city/cmocean/index.html) and on [github](https://github.com/kthyng/cmocean-gmt)

• For [Paraview](https://github.com/kthyng/cmocean-paraview) inspired by [Phillip Wolfram](https://github.com/pwolfram)

• In [Plotly](https://plot.ly/python/cmocean-colorscales/)

• Chad Greene’s [Antartic Mapping Tools](http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/47638-antarctic-mapping-tools) in Matlab uses cmocean

• For [Tableau](https://www.tableau.com) as a preferences file on [github](https://github.com/shaunwbell/cmocean_tableau)

• For [ImageJ](https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/) as [LUTs](https://github.com/mikeperrins/cmocean-LUT-ImageJ)

To install: pip install cmocean

To install with Anaconda: conda install -c conda-forge cmocean

If you want to be able to use the plots submodule, you can instead install with:

pip install “cmocean[plots]”

which will also install viscm and colorspacious.