nc-time-axis 1.3.0

Provides support for a cftime axis in matplotlib

nc-time-axis

Support for a cftime axis in matplotlib

Installation

Install nc-time-axis either with conda:

    conda install -c conda-forge nc-time-axis

Or pip:

    pip install nc-time-axis

Example

import random

import cftime
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

from nc_time_axis import CalendarDateTime

calendar = "360_day"
dt = [
    cftime.datetime(year=2017, month=2, day=day, calendar=calendar)
    for day in range(1, 31)
]
cdt = [CalendarDateTime(item, calendar) for item in dt]
temperatures = [round(random.uniform(0, 12), 3) for _ in range(len(cdt))]

plt.plot(cdt, temperatures)
plt.margins(0.1)
plt.ylim(0, 12)
plt.xlabel("Date")
plt.ylabel("Temperature")
plt.show()

Reference

• cftime - Time-handling functionality from netcdf4-python.
• matplotlib - Plotting with Python.