argopy.plot.discrete_coloring#

discrete_coloring = <function discrete_coloring>[source]#

Handy class to manage discrete coloring and the associated colorbar

Warning

This plotting utility is deprecated since 0.1.13. It’s been replaced by argopy.plot.ArgoColors. Calling it will raise an error after argopy 0.1.14.

Examples

This class can be used like this:

year_range = np.arange(2002,2010)
dc = discrete_coloring(name='Spectral', N=len(year_range) )
plt.scatter(this['LONGITUDE'], this['LATITUDE'], c=this['TIME.year'],
            cmap=dc.cmap, vmin=year_range[0], vmax=year_range[-1])
dc.cbar(ticklabels=yr_range, fraction=0.03, label='Years')