Arctic paleoglaciers#

Plot Batchelor et al. (2019) arctic paleoglaciers as a standalone vector map, using a north polar stereographic coordinate system (https://epsg.io/3995).

Last Glacial Maximum (Batchelor et al., 2019)
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import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import hyoga

# plot natural earth land
gdf = hyoga.open.natural_earth('land', scale='50m').to_crs('epsg:3995')
ax = gdf.plot(color='0.9')

# plot paleoglaciers
gdf = hyoga.open.paleoglaciers('bat19').to_crs('epsg:3995')
ax = gdf.plot(ax=ax, alpha=0.75)

# set axes properties
ax.set_title('Last Glacial Maximum (Batchelor et al., 2019)')
ax.xaxis.set_visible(False)
ax.yaxis.set_visible(False)

# reasonable axes limits
ax.set_xlim(-7.2e6, 7.2e6)
ax.set_ylim(-4.8e6, 4.8e6)

# show
plt.show()

Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 6.488 seconds)

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