.. DO NOT EDIT. .. THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY SPHINX-GALLERY. .. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE: .. "examples/calculations/Absolute_Vorticity.py" .. LINE NUMBERS ARE GIVEN BELOW. .. only:: html .. note:: :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note :ref:`Go to the end ` to download the full example code. .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title .. _sphx_glr_examples_calculations_Absolute_Vorticity.py: ================== Absolute Vorticity ================== Use `metpy.calc.absolute_vorticity`. This example demonstrates the calculatation of absolute vorticity using the example xarray Dataset and plotting using Matplotlib. .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 14-36 .. image-sg:: /examples/calculations/images/sphx_glr_Absolute_Vorticity_001.png :alt: Absolute Vorticity Calculation :srcset: /examples/calculations/images/sphx_glr_Absolute_Vorticity_001.png :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. code-block:: Python import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import metpy.calc as mpcalc from metpy.cbook import example_data # load example data ds = example_data() # Calculate the vertical vorticity of the flow avor = mpcalc.absolute_vorticity(ds.uwind, ds.vwind) # start figure and set axis fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(5, 5)) # plot and scale absolute vorticity by 1e5 cf = ax.contourf(ds.lon, ds.lat, avor * 1e5, range(-80, 81, 1), cmap=plt.cm.PuOr_r) plt.colorbar(cf, pad=0, aspect=50) ax.barbs(ds.lon.values, ds.lat.values, ds.uwind, ds.vwind, color='black', length=5, alpha=0.5) ax.set(xlim=(260, 270), ylim=(30, 40)) ax.set_title('Absolute Vorticity Calculation') plt.show() .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-timing **Total running time of the script:** (0 minutes 0.132 seconds) .. _sphx_glr_download_examples_calculations_Absolute_Vorticity.py: .. only:: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: Absolute_Vorticity.ipynb ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python :download:`Download Python source code: Absolute_Vorticity.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-zip :download:`Download zipped: Absolute_Vorticity.zip ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_