Documentation available: http://matplotlib.org/cmocean/.
We have a paper with guidelines to colormap selection for your application and a description of the cmocean
colormaps:
Thyng, K. M., Greene, C. A., Hetland, R. D., Zimmerle, H. M., & DiMarco, S. F. (2016). True colors of oceanography. Oceanography, 29(3), 10.
link: http://tos.org/oceanography/assets/docs/29-3_thyng.pdf
Besides Python, the cmocean colormaps are also available:
cmocean
To install:
pip install cmocean
To install with Anaconda:
conda install -c conda-forge cmocean
If you want to be able to use the plots
submodule, you can instead install with:
pip install "cmocean[plots]"
which will also install viscm
and colorspacious
.