Psyplot Diagnostics
Overview
These recipes showcase the use of the Psyplot diagnostic that provides a high-level interface to Psyplot for ESMValTool recipes.
Available recipes and diagnostics
Recipes are stored in recipes/
recipe_psyplot.yml
Diagnostics are stored in diag_scripts/
Variables
Arbitrary variables are supported.
Observations and reformat scripts
Arbitrary datasets are supported.
References
Sommer, (2017), The psyplot interactive visualization framework, Journal of Open Source Software, 2(16), 363, doi:10.21105/joss.00363
Example plots

Fig. 221 Historical near-surface air temperature climatology over Europe simulated by CanESM5 between 1995 and 2014. The plot visualizes the invidividual rectangular grid cells of the model’s regular grid.

Fig. 222 Historical near-surface air temperature climatology over Europe simulated by ICON-ESM-LR between 1995 and 2014. The plot visualizes the invidividual triangular grid cells of the model’s unstructured grid.