Awesome! Thanks much Alex. I'll throw a patch up soon for it unless someone
beats me too it.


-- Joyce

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Alex Goodman <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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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