Scientific colour maps

A complete suite of perceptually uniform and colour-vision deficiency friendly colour palettes. Creator: Fabio Crameri This version: 07.08.2021 License: MIT License Specific citation: The Scientific colour map batlow (Crameri 2018)…

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Effective visualisation (geodynamic modelling)

Effective visualisation through a scientific use of colours. Non-scientific colour maps (a,b) like rainbow always misrepresent data, are often not intuitive, and are inaccessible to a large portion of the…

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S-wave velocity maps

…down into the mantle. Shown is the average of two upper-mantle seismic tomography models, SL2013sv (Schaeffer & Lebedev, 2013) and 3D2016_09Sv (Debayle et al., 2016). The Scientific colour map ‘batlow‘…

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Seismic mantle tomography maps

…Tuzo). Shown is the S10MEAN model based on Doubrovine et al. (2016) averaging 10 tomography models allowing to compare relative variations in S-wave velocity. The Scientific colour map ‘batlow‘ is…

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North East Atlantic Ocean Evolution

Opening of the North East Atlantic Ocean and dynamic support from the Iceland mantle plume. The Scientific colour maps ‘oleron’ and lajolla‘ is used to represent data accurately and to…

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Atlantic ocean floor

…grids. Various Scientific colour maps are used to represent data accurately and to all readers. Creator: Eivind O. Straume This version: 03.09.2021 License: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) Specific…

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Solid-state convection (animation)

…hot at the bottom and cold at the top. The stream-function indicates the instantaneous direction of the flow at any given point in time. The Scientific colour maps ‘vik’ and…

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