plot_cone

tropycal.utils.plot_cone(self, cone, plot_center_line=False, **kwargs)[source]

Plots a Tropycal derived National Hurricane Center (NHC) cone of uncertainty.

Parameters

  • cone (dict or xarray.Dataset) – Cone of uncertainty generated from utils.generate_nhc_cone().

  • plot_center_line (bool) – Determine whether to plot cone center line. Default is False.

Other Parameters

  • fillcolor (str) – Color to fill the cone in. Default is ‘white’.

  • linecolor (str) – Color of outer edge of cone. Default is ‘black’.

  • linewidth (int or float) – Linewidth of outer edge of cone. Default is 1.0.

  • alpha (int or float) – Fill opacity of cone. Default is 0.6.

  • zorder (int or float) – Optional display order on axes of the cone and center line.

  • center_linecolor (str) – Color of center line. Default is ‘black’. Ignored if plot_center_line is False.

  • center_linewidth (int or float) – Linewidth of center line. Default is 2.0. Ignored if plot_center_line is False.

  • center_linestyle (str) – Linestyle of center line. Default is ‘solid’. Ignored if plot_center_line is False.

Notes

It is not necessary to pass a “transform” keyword argument, as this is already assumed to be ccrs.PlateCarree().

This function is already appended to an axes instance if ax = utils.add_tropycal(ax) is run beforehand. This allows this method to be called simply via ax.plot_cone(...).