cal-adapt / climakitae

A Python toolkit for retrieving, visualizing, and performing scientific analyses with data from the Cal-Adapt Analytics Engine.
https://climakitae.readthedocs.io
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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unintuitive colorbar defaults #299

Open thenaomig opened 9 months ago

thenaomig commented 9 months ago

This is showing up in warming_levels.ipynb, run with all of the defaults. The colorbar is a diverging one even though all of the data is positive, which results in a lot of blue pixels (implying colder temperatures) when every pixel is in-fact warmer.

vicford commented 8 months ago

This is based on the default behavior in _get_cmap. Will modify this function to determine the min/max range first to establish which colormap + consideration of moisture variables which should have "blues" represent more moisture as following standard meteorological convention.