Features
An overview of what ClimCanvas can do. For details such as the settings on each screen, see the Manual.
1. Seven plot modes
A figure is built from panels (one frame of the figure), and for each panel you choose one of the following seven plot modes. Several panels in one figure can mix different modes (for example, a horizontal map on top and a time series below).
| Mode | Description |
|---|---|
| Horizontal map | A map on a map projection. Layers such as fill, contours, hatch, vectors, streamlines, scatter (points) and tracks can be overlaid |
| Vertical cross-section | Latitude or longitude × vertical sections. Sections along a great circle between two points or across 2-D coordinate grids (such as Lambert grids), terrain mask, and the section path drawn on a map |
| Time section | Time × space sections (Hovmöller diagrams, etc.) |
| 1-D plot | Lines, line bundles (ensemble members and the like overlaid with the same style, with summary lines such as the mean and percentiles), bands (filled), stacked plots and bars (can be assigned to two vertical axes, left and right) |
| 1-D plot (aggregation) | Histogram, ECDF, box plot, violin |
| 2-D plot | Scatter and bubble plots; switchable to a categorical heatmap (matrix display of a 2-D variable) |
| 2-D plot (aggregation) | hist2d, hexbin |
2. Three ways to deploy
ClimCanvas is a web app operated from a browser. Depending on where the app runs and how you connect to it, there are three ways to use it. The screen and the features are the same in every case; only the launch procedure and where the files live differ.