Manual

Chapters

1. Basic operation — launch and quit, screen and sidebar layout, loading files, figure size and aspect ratio, figure-wide format, text and markers, saving, performance guide.
2. Data handling — auto-detection and manual override of coordinate roles, 2-D coordinate grids, fixing dimensions and range means, cropping ranges, cyclic longitude, missing values, time axis and calendars.
3. Computational conventions — selection of coordinate values (exact match), padding when cropping a region, weights of range means, missing values, value transforms and mask-out, definitions of statistics (standard deviation, whiskers, KDE, bins), longitude conventions, vectors on 2-D coordinate grids, calendars, dimension alignment, plotting assumptions. A list of the conventions needed to verify a figure.
4. Plot modes — what the 7 modes do and when they appear, map projection, region, coastlines and gridlines, section orientation and terrain mask, plot variables for 1-D, scatter and aggregation plots.
5. Layers: maps and sections — fill, contours, hatch, vectors, streamlines, scatter (points), track, colormaps and colorbars, value transforms and mask-out, stacking order.
6. Layers: 1-D, scatter and aggregation — line, line bundle, line fill, stack plot, bar chart, histogram, ECDF, box plot, violin, scatter, bubble chart, 2-D histogram, hexbin.
7. Axes, legend and frame — settings shared by 1-D, scatter and aggregation plots: axes (log, inverted, range, time-axis format), axis labels, ticks, frame, background, filled spans and reference lines, legend.
8. Multiple panels — panel layout, row and column ratios, merged cells (mosaic), panel labels, "All panels shared" editing, shared colorbar, relation to animation.
9. Output and reproduction scripts — still-image formats and resolution, animations by time stepping and by rotating the globe, structure of the reproduction script, contents of sessions and presets.
10. Interpolation of sections along a path — technical note. How values are produced for vertical cross-sections along a parallel, a meridian or a great circle (path points, fractional grid indices, bilinear interpolation), rules for missing values, accuracy, embedding in the reproduction script.

How to read

• Operations on the screen are written as a chain with "→", for example "Save" → "Session" → "To this PC".
• Default values of settings follow the defaults of matplotlib / cartopy. See the "Default" column of each table.
• The text corresponds to the version of ClimCanvas shown at the top of the page.