Interactive Space Physics Visualization

Explore data with interactive plots

This tutorial demonstrates interactive visualization of space physics data using WebGL-powered plots. Unlike static plots, these visualizations allow you to pan, zoom, and explore your data directly.

Note

We use BonitoBook in Colab, which is a Julia native notebook with many additional features compared to Colab (we mainly use Colab as a computation platform). Using WGLMakie directly in Colab is currently not possible due to this limitation.

Setup: install the required packages

using Pkg
Pkg.add(["CDAWeb", "WGLMakie", "SpacePhysicsMakie"])

Interactive Time Series Plot

This example loads OMNI solar wind data:

Code

using CDAWeb
using WGLMakie, SpacePhysicsMakie

t0 = "2008-09-05T10:00:00"
t1 = "2008-09-05T22:00:00"
# The `cda` string macro provides a convenient way to fetch multiple variables from CDAWeb in a single line.
tvars = cda"OMNI_HRO_1MIN/flow_speed, Pressure"
f, axs = tplot(tvars, t0, t1)
f

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Try interacting with the plot:

Scroll to zoom in/out
Click and drag to pan
ctrl+click to reset the view

Note

See SpacePhysicsMakie.jl webpage for an example using Speasy.jl.