Hi Mike,

That looks like a typo to me. Given grid arrays x(length N) and y(length
M), calls to contourf(x, y, data) assume that data has a shape [M, N]. In
this case, x corresponds to lons and y corresponds to lats, so the shape of
the dataset should indeed be (time, lat, lon). I know it can be
counter-intuitive, but it is what it is. Looking at the history, it appears
that I was the one who made the typo. Sorry for the confusion!

Thanks,
Alex

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Michael Joyce <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Was poking through the plotting code and stumbled upon something that I
> think is just a typo but I want to get confirmation first. It seems that
> the requested format for the passed dataset is (time, lon, lat) [1].
> However, the example use cases have bee using (time, lat, lon) since that
> is the format that the Dataset object uses.
>
> I tried running an example where I took the results array from an
> evaluation and reshaped the data so it was in the expected format but I
> can't get it to run properly. So I assume this is just a typo, but perhaps
> someone who is more familiar could elaborate?
>
> [1] https://github.com/apache/climate/blob/master/ocw/plotter.py#L497
> -- Joyce
>



-- 
Alex Goodman
Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Atmospheric Science
Colorado State University

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