Overlaying a boxplot onto a time series figure

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Jamie Mitchell

Hi there,

I would like to overlay some boxplots onto a time series.

I have tried pylab.hold(True) in between the two plots in my code but this hasn't worked.

The problem is that the x-axes of the boxplots and the time series are not the same.

Code for time series:

python2.7
import netCDF4
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

swh_Q0_con_sw=netCDF4.Dataset('/data/cr1/jmitchel/Q0/swh/controlperiod/south_west/swhcontrol_swest_annavg1D.nc','r')
hs_Q0_con_sw=swh_Q0_con_sw.variables['hs'][:]
year_con=swh_Q0_con_sw.variables['year'][:]
swh_Q3_con_sw=netCDF4.Dataset('/data/cr1/jmitchel/Q3/swh/controlperiod/south_west/swhcontrol_swest_annavg1D.nc','r')
hs_Q3_con_sw=swh_Q3_con_sw.variables['hs'][:]
swh_Q4_con_sw=netCDF4.Dataset('/data/cr1/jmitchel/Q4/swh/controlperiod/south_west/swhcontrol_swest_annavg1D.nc','r')
hs_Q4_con_sw=swh_Q4_con_sw.variables['hs'][:]
swh_Q14_con_sw=netCDF4.Dataset('/data/cr1/jmitchel/Q14/swh/controlperiod/south_west/swhcontrol_swest_annavg1D.nc','r')
hs_Q14_con_sw=swh_Q14_con_sw.variables['hs'][:]
swh_Q16_con_sw=netCDF4.Dataset('/data/cr1/jmitchel/Q16/swh/controlperiod/south_west/swhcontrol_swest_annavg1D.nc','r')
hs_Q16_con_sw=swh_Q16_con_sw.variables['hs'][:]
swh_Q0_fut_sw=netCDF4.Dataset('/data/cr1/jmitchel/Q0/swh/2050s/south_west/swh2050s_swest_annavg1D.nc','r')
hs_Q0_fut_sw=swh_Q0_fut_sw.variables['hs'][:]
year_fut=swh_Q0_fut_sw.variables['year'][:]
swh_Q3_fut_sw=netCDF4.Dataset('/data/cr1/jmitchel/Q3/swh/2050s/south_west/swh2050s_swest_annavg1D.nc','r')
hs_Q3_fut_sw=swh_Q3_fut_sw.variables['hs'][:]
swh_Q4_fut_sw=netCDF4.Dataset('/data/cr1/jmitchel/Q4/swh/2050s/south_west/swh2050s_swest_annavg1D.nc','r')
hs_Q4_fut_sw=swh_Q4_fut_sw.variables['hs'][:]
swh_Q14_fut_sw=netCDF4.Dataset('/data/cr1/jmitchel/Q14/swh/2050s/south_west/swh2050s_swest_annavg1D.nc','r')
hs_Q14_fut_sw=swh_Q14_fut_sw.variables['hs'][:]
swh_Q16_fut_sw=netCDF4.Dataset('/data/cr1/jmitchel/Q16/swh/2050s/south_west/swh2050s_swest_annavg1D.nc','r')
hs_Q16_fut_sw=swh_Q16_fut_sw.variables['hs'][:]

fit_Q0_con_sw=np.polyfit(year_con,hs_Q0_con_sw,1)
fit_fn_Q0_con_sw=np.poly1d(fit_Q0_con_sw)

plt.plot(year_con,hs_Q0_con_sw,'g.')
plt.plot(year_con,fit_fn_Q0_con_sw(year_con),'g',label='Q0 no pert')

fit_Q3_con_sw=np.polyfit(year_con,hs_Q3_con_sw,1)
fit_fn_Q3_con_sw=np.poly1d(fit_Q3_con_sw)

plt.plot(year_con,hs_Q3_con_sw,'b.')
plt.plot(year_con,fit_fn_Q3_con_sw(year_con),'b',label='Q3 low sens')

fit_Q4_con_sw=np.polyfit(year_con,hs_Q4_con_sw,1)
fit_fn_Q4_con_sw=np.poly1d(fit_Q4_con_sw)

plt.plot(year_con,hs_Q4_con_sw,'y.')
plt.plot(year_con,fit_fn_Q4_con_sw(year_con),'y',label='Q4 low sens')

fit_Q14_con_sw=np.polyfit(year_con,hs_Q14_con_sw,1)
fit_fn_Q14_con_sw=np.poly1d(fit_Q14_con_sw)

plt.plot(year_con,hs_Q14_con_sw,'r.')
plt.plot(year_con,fit_fn_Q14_con_sw(year_con),'r',label='Q14 high sens')

fit_Q16_con_sw=np.polyfit(year_con,hs_Q16_con_sw,1)
fit_fn_Q16_con_sw=np.poly1d(fit_Q16_con_sw)

plt.plot(year_con,hs_Q16_con_sw,'c.')
plt.plot(year_con,fit_fn_Q16_con_sw(year_con),'c',label='Q16 high sens')

fit_Q0_fut_sw=np.polyfit(year_fut,hs_Q0_fut_sw,1)
fit_fn_Q0_fut_sw=np.poly1d(fit_Q0_fut_sw)

plt.plot(year_fut,hs_Q0_fut_sw,'g.')
plt.plot(year_fut,fit_fn_Q0_fut_sw(year_fut),'g')

fit_Q3_fut_sw=np.polyfit(year_fut,hs_Q3_fut_sw,1)
fit_fn_Q3_fut_sw=np.poly1d(fit_Q3_fut_sw)

plt.plot(year_fut,hs_Q3_fut_sw,'b.')
plt.plot(year_fut,fit_fn_Q3_fut_sw(year_fut),'b')

fit_Q4_fut_sw=np.polyfit(year_fut,hs_Q4_fut_sw,1)
fit_fn_Q4_fut_sw=np.poly1d(fit_Q4_fut_sw)

plt.plot(year_fut,hs_Q4_fut_sw,'y.')
plt.plot(year_fut,fit_fn_Q4_fut_sw(year_fut),'y')

fit_Q14_fut_sw=np.polyfit(year_fut,hs_Q14_fut_sw,1)
fit_fn_Q14_fut_sw=np.poly1d(fit_Q14_fut_sw)

plt.plot(year_fut,hs_Q14_fut_sw,'r.')
plt.plot(year_fut,fit_fn_Q14_fut_sw(year_fut),'y')

fit_Q16_fut_sw=np.polyfit(year_fut,hs_Q16_fut_sw,1)
fit_fn_Q16_fut_sw=np.poly1d(fit_Q16_fut_sw)

plt.plot(year_fut,hs_Q16_fut_sw,'c.')
plt.plot(year_fut,fit_fn_Q16_fut_sw(year_fut),'c')

plt.legend(loc='best')
plt.xlabel('Year')
plt.ylabel('Significant Wave Height annual averages SW England')
plt.title('Time series of Significant Wave Height')
plt.show()

Code for boxplots:

python2.7
from pylab import *
import netCDF4

data=(hs_Q0_con_sw,hs_Q3_con_sw,hs_Q4_con_sw,hs_Q14_con_sw,hs_Q16_con_sw)

figure(1)
boxplot(data)
labels=('QO no pert','Q3 low sens','Q4 low sens','Q14 high sens','Q16 high sens')
xticks(range(1,6),labels,rotation=15)
xlabel('Ensemble Member')
ylabel('Significant Wave Height Annual Average')
title('Significant Wave Height SW England 1981-2010')
show()



If anybody knows how I could integrate these two plots I would be eternally grateful!

Thanks,

Jamie
 

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