Prevent subplots from overlapping in 6-panel plots; Prevent colorbar labels from overlapping #260
Conversation
This file contains bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters.
Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters
gcpy/gcpy_plot_style
- Style sheet with several global plot parameter settings. These
will override the matplotlib.rcParams default settings.
gcpy/plot.py
- Use the gcpy_plot_style style sheet to override several
Matplotlib default settings
- For zonal_mean plots, increase padding between the plot and colorbar
from 0.10 to 0.15 (fractional height)
- For single_level plots, decrease padding between the plot and
colorbar (from 0.10 to 0.02). This helps plots not to overflow into
the titles of the next row.
- No longer hardwire the fontsize setting of the top-of-page title;
this is now specified as "figure.titlesize" in the gcpy_plot_style
customizable style sheet.
- Updated comments in the compare_zonal_mean Pydoc header.
- Use matplotlib.pyplot.subplots_adjust (aka plt.subplots_adjust) to
add extra padding between subplots ("wspace" and "hspace"). Also
specify how much of the page to occupy in the horizontal (between
"left" and "right" settings), and in the vertical ("bottom" to "top";
"top" uses the default value of 0.11).
Signed-off-by: Bob Yantosca <[email protected]>
gcpy/plot.py
- In routine "compute_vmin_vmax_for_plot":
- Make sure vmin is less than vmax for dynamic-range ratio plots
- In routine "colorbar_ticks_and_format":
- For dynamic-range ratio plots, if the data lies between 0.999
and 1.001, then manually set tickmarks at [vmin, 1, vmax] (i.e.
do not use intermediate tick labels). This should prevent the
tick labels from overlapping each other).
- Update comments
CHANGELOG.md
- Updated accordingly
Signed-off-by: Bob Yantosca <[email protected]>
yantosca
added
topic: Colors and Display
|
With these fixes, the 6-panel single-level plots now look like this: |
yantosca
changed the title
msulprizio
approved these changes
Sep 20, 2023
Sign up for free
to join this conversation on GitHub.
Already have an account?
Sign in to comment
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.
Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.
Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.
You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.
Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.
This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.
Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.
Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.
Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
This is the companion PR to #259, in which we have implemented several fixes for the 6-panel plots (as are used to display GEOS-Chem benchmark output):
Add a new style sheet
gcpy/gcpy_plot_stylewith global settings for plot titles and labels. These settings are applied with theplt.style.use()function.Remove hardwired fontsize attributes in
compare_single_levelandcompare_zonal_mean. We now get these values from the settings ingcpy/gcpy_plot_style.Decrease the amount of padding space (from 0.10 to 0.02) between the plot and colorbar for
single_levelplots. This will prevent the colorbar from overlapping with the plot titles in the next row.Increase the amount of padding between the plot and colorbar (from 0.10 to 0.15) between the plot and colorbar for
zonal_meanplots. This will prevent the zonal mean plots from overlapping onto the next row.Make sure that the colorbar min and max values (
vmin,vmax) are such thatvminis always smaller thanvmaxfor dynamic-range ratio plots. This was causing an issue where colorbar plot labels were overlapping each other.For dynamic-range ratio plots, if the data lies in the range 0.999..1.001, then only create 3 colorbar ticklabels (
[vmin, 1, vmax]). Using less ticklabels will prevent the ticklabels from overlapping.In routine
compare_zonal_mean, add extra padding space around each subplot (and also define the left and right extents for the subplots on the page) with a call toplt.subplots_adjust().