Monitor#

Overview#

These recipes and diagnostics allow plotting arbitrary preprocessor output, i.e., arbitrary variables from arbitrary datasets. In addition, a base class is provided that allows a convenient interface for all monitoring diagnostics.

Available recipes and diagnostics#

Recipes are stored in recipes/monitor

recipe_monitor.yml
recipe_monitor_with_refs.yml

Diagnostics are stored in diag_scripts/monitor/

monitor.py: Monitoring diagnostic to plot arbitrary preprocessor output.
compute_eofs.py: Monitoring diagnostic to plot EOF maps and associated PC timeseries.
multi_datasets.py: Monitoring diagnostic to show multiple datasets in one plot (incl. biases).

User settings#

It is recommended to use a vector graphic file type (e.g., SVG) for the output files when running this recipe, i.e., run the recipe with the command line option --output_file_type=svg or use output_file_type: svg in your User configuration file. Note that map and profile plots are rasterized by default. Use rasterize_maps: false or rasterize: false (see Recipe settings) in the recipe to disable this.

Recipe settings#

A list of all possible configuration options that can be specified in the recipe is given for each diagnostic individually (see previous section).

Monitor configuration file#

In addition, the following diagnostics support the use of a dedicated monitor configuration file:

monitor.py

compute_eofs.py

This file is a yaml file that contains map and variable specific options in two dictionaries maps and variables.

Each entry in maps corresponds to a map definition. Example:

maps:
   global: # Map name, choose a meaningful one
      projection: PlateCarree # Cartopy projection to use
      projection_kwargs: # Dictionary with Cartopy's projection keyword arguments.
         central_longitude: 285
      smooth: true # If true, interpolate values to get smoother maps. If not, all points in a cells will get the exact same color
      lon: [-120, -60, 0, 60, 120, 180] # Set longitude ticks
      lat: [-90, -60, -30, 0, 30, 60, 90] # Set latitude ticks
      colorbar_location: bottom
      extent: null # If defined, restrict the projection to a region. Format [lon1, lon2, lat1, lat2]
      suptitle_pos: 0.87 # Title position in the figure.

Each entry in variables corresponds to a variable definition. Use the default entry to apply generic options to all variables. Example:

variables:
   # Define default. Variable definitions completely override the default
   # not just the values defined. If you want to override only the defined
   # values, use yaml anchors as shown
   default: &default
      colors: RdYlBu_r # Matplotlib colormap to use for the colorbar
      N: 20 # Number of map intervals to plot
      bad: [0.9, 0.9, 0.9] # Color to use when no data
   pr:
      <<: *default
      colors: gist_earth_r
      # Define bounds of the colorbar, as a list of
      bounds: 0-10.5,0.5 # Set colorbar bounds, as a list or in the format min-max,interval
      extend: max # Set extend parameter of mpl colorbar. See https://matplotlib.org/stable/api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot.colorbar.html
   sos:
      # If default is defined, entries are treated as map specific option.
      # Missing values in map definitionas are taken from variable's default
      # definition
      default:
         <<: *default
         bounds: 25-41,1
         extend: both
      arctic:
         bounds: 25-40,1
      antarctic:
         bounds: 30-40,0.5
   nao: &nao
      <<: *default
      extend: both
      # Variable definitions can override map parameters. Use with caution.
      bounds: [-0.03, -0.025, -0.02, -0.015, -0.01, -0.005, 0., 0.005, 0.01, 0.015, 0.02, 0.025, 0.03]
      projection: PlateCarree
      smooth: true
      lon: [-90, -60, -30, 0, 30]
      lat: [20, 40, 60, 80]
      colorbar_location: bottom
      suptitle_pos: 0.87
   sam:
      <<: *nao
      lat: [-90, -80, -70, -60, -50]
      projection: SouthPolarStereo
      projection_kwargs:
         central_longitude: 270
      smooth: true
      lon: [-120, -60, 0, 60, 120, 180]