Taylor Diagram Example 10

How to create a Taylor diagram with a large number of symbols of different color along with a legend.

A tenth example of how to create a Taylor diagram given one set of reference observations and multiple model predictions for the quantity.

Produces a Taylor diagram showing how data available from public sources can be used to populate an acceptable model of water temperatures in the Farmington River basin of Connecticut.

The data are stored in arrays named: sdev, crmsd, and ccoef. Each of these contain 1 reference value (first position) and 22 prediction values, for a total of 23 values. These arrays are stored in a container which is then written to a pickle file. A different file suffix is used depending upon whether the file is created using Python 2 (.pkl) or Python 3 (.pkl3) because the pickle package is not cross version compatible for pickle files containing containers of dictionaries.

The source data is an observation set at each location as well as a simulation set. The reference value is chosen that more or less represents the consensus on acceptable values of the root-mean square error.

This data was provide courtesy of John Yearsley, Affiliate Professor, UW-Hydro|Computational Hydrology, University of Washington.