API Reference

This page provides an auto-generated summary of mosaic’s API.

Plotting

polypcolor(ax, descriptor, array, **kwargs)	Create a pseudocolor plot of a unstructured MPAS grid.
contour(ax, *args, **kwargs)	Plot contour lines on an unstructured MPAS mesh.
contourf(ax, *args, **kwargs)	Plot filled contours on an unstructured MPAS mesh.

Data Structures

Descriptor(mesh_ds[, projection, transform, ...])

Data structure describing unstructured MPAS meshes.

Helper Functions

utils.cull_mesh(ds_base, cells_to_cull)	Cull cells from a mesh using a cell mask
utils.get_invalid_patches(patches)	Helper function to identify problematic patches.
utils.compute_cell_centroid(cell_patches, ...)	Compute Centroid of cell patch using shoelace formula
datasets.open_dataset(name[, cache_dir, cache])	Open a dataset from the lcrc database (requires internet), unless a local copy is found.