Reference#

Color Vision Deficiency Friendly Colormaps (cmweather.cm_colorblind)#

Colorblind friendly radar colormaps

Available colormaps, reversed versions are also provided, these colormaps are available within matplotlib:

  • HomeyerRainbow

  • balance

  • ChaseSpectral

  • SpectralExtended

  • CM_depol

  • CM_rhohv

  • plasmidis

  • bgyp

  • turbone

CM_dopol and CM_rhohv are based on the work by:

Crameri, F., G.E. Shephard and P.J. Heron, 2020: The misuse of colour in science communication. Nat Commun 11, 5444 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19160-7

Michelson D., B. Hansen, D. Jacques, F. Lemay, and P Rodriguez, 2020: Monitoring the impact of weather radar data quality control for quantitative application at the continental scale. Meteorol. Appl. 2020;27:e1929. 12 pp. https://doi.org/10.1002/met.1929

More Weather Colormaps (cmweather.cm)#

Radar related colormaps.

Available colormaps, reversed versions (_r) are also provided, these colormaps are available within matplotlib:

  • BlueBrown10

  • BlueBrown11

  • BrBu10

  • BrBu12

  • Bu10

  • Bu7

  • BuDOr12

  • BuDOr18

  • BuDRd12

  • BuDRd18

  • BuGr14

  • BuGy8

  • BuOr10

  • BuOr12

  • BuOr8

  • BuOrR14

  • Carbone11

  • Carbone17

  • Carbone42

  • Cat12

  • EWilson17

  • GrMg16

  • Gray5

  • Gray9

  • NWSRef

  • NWSVel

  • NWS_SPW

  • NWS_CC

  • PD17

  • RRate11

  • RdYlBu11b

  • RefDiff

  • SCook18

  • StepSeq25

  • SymGray12

  • Theodore16

  • Wild25

  • LangRainbow12

cmweather.cm.revcmap(data)[source]#

Can only handle specification data in dictionary format.