21.3 NetCDF Visualizing

NetCDF-Visualizing

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Changing the Color Scheme of a Matrix Window

When a matrix is active, you can use the Palette button and the Missing Value Color button to customize color of the matrix window.

Creating Graphs from NetCDF Data

Build-in Graph Types

Origin provides multiple build-in graph types for presenting NetCDF data. They are all available from the Plot menu

Graph Type	Plot Menu Category
Contour: Contour - Color Fill, Contour - B/W Lines, Gray Scale Map	Contour
Image Plot	Contour
Surface: 3D Colormap Surface, 3D Colormap Surface with projection, 3D Color Fill Surface	3D
Multiple Surface: Multiple Colormap Surfaces, Multiple Color Fill Surfaces	3D

Recommended Tutorials for Further Graph Customization Contour Plots and Color Mapping Stacked 3D Surface Plots Merging and Arranging Graphs Video: Adding Maps to Graphs Using Shapefiles in Origin Video: Using Origin's Matrix Features to Create a NetCDF-based Anomaly Plot

The Climate template in Template Library

You can use the Climate template to plot the NetCDF data.

Select Plot: Template Library to open the dialog. Select Climate template and click Plot button.

Contour plot in Sphere Surface Projections

Origin supports creating contour plots in spherical surface projections. Please refer to the tutorial below for detailed steps

• Contour plot in Sphere Surface Projections

Flip Through Data by Graph Browser

After creating an image or contour graph, you can click the Graph Browser button. The Browser Graph has a panel on the left-side of the window that is used to select the plots from the NetCDF matrix stack.

Insert map into the graph from NetCDF Data

There are several ways you can add map outlines in the contour or image from NetCDF Data. You can refer to this page.

• You can use Insert: World Map to insert World map boundaries easily.