Plot a clutter map

A simple plotting routine for visualizing the clutter map. You’ll need to specify several paramters for the routine:

• Path to clutter map netCDF

• Path to output directory for plots

• Scan type (i.e. PPI, RHI)

• Map type (i.e. daily or composite)

• Polarization (i.e. horizontal or dual)

• Maximum range to plot in kilometers

• Site abbreviation

• Instrument name

The routine can plot maps of both PPI and RHI scan types, as well as both daily and composite clutter maps.

# import commands
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from .plot.plot_clutter_map import plot_clutter_map

# specify all parameters
clutter_map_netcdf = '/__my_path_to__/__my_clutter_map.nc__'
output_directory = '__my_path_to__/__my_figure_output_directory__/'
scan_type = 'ppi'
map_type = 'composite'
polarization = 'horizontal'
max_range = 5
site = 'ena'
inst = 'xsapr2'

plot_clutter_map(clutter_map_netcdf,
                 output_directory,
                 scan_type,
                 map_type,
                 polarization,
                 max_range,
                 site,
                 inst
                 )

The plot generated is found in the specified output directory and for the parameters listed in the example, will look like this: