Plotting data from the SARS databaseΒΆ

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/Users/travis/build/sharppy/SHARPpy/examples/plot_sars.py:29: UserWarning: Matplotlib is currently using agg, which is a non-GUI backend, so cannot show the figure.
  plt.show()

import sharppy.sharptab as tab
import sharppy.databases.sars as sars
import numpy as np
import os
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

database_fn = os.path.join( os.path.dirname( sars.__file__ ), 'sars_supercell.txt')
supercell_database = np.loadtxt(database_fn, skiprows=1, dtype=bytes, comments="%%%%")

magnitude = []
mlcape = []
srh01 = []
for record in supercell_database:
    magnitude.append(int(record[1]))
    mlcape.append(float(record[3]))
    srh01.append(float(record[6]))
plt.grid()
plt.scatter(mlcape, srh01, c=magnitude, marker='.')
plt.colorbar()
plt.xlabel("MLCAPE [J/kg]")
plt.ylabel(r'0-1 km Storm Relative Helicity [$m^{2}/s^{2}$]')
plt.savefig('plot_sars.png', bbox_inches='tight')
plt.show()

Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 0.885 seconds)

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