README.md

Installation • Documentation

earthkit-plots leverages the power of the earthkit ecosystem to make producing publication-quality scientific graphics as simple and convenient as possible.

✨ Concise API - generate complex visualisations in just a few lines.

🔍 Automatic data extraction - reads GRIB, netCDF, and zarr data; works with xarray DataArrays and NumPy arrays; handles geographic coordinates, grids, and CRS automatically.

🧠 Intelligent formatting - titles, labels, and colour scales adapt based on detected metadata, variables, and units.

🎨 Style libraries - swap styles to match your organisation, project, or preferences.

🌐 Complex grids out of the box - HEALPix, reduced Gaussian, and more with no extra legwork.

Installation

Install from PyPI:

pip install earthkit-plots

More details, such as optional dependencies can be found at https://earthkit-plots.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html.

Licence

Copyright 2023, European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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