The cmocean palettes
The northwest Gulf of Mexico (PONG at Texas A&M)
Kristen M. Thyng of Texas A&M University's Department of Oceanography has developed this collection of colour-palettes for commonly-used oceanographic variables.
Detailed notes on the design of the palettes and their motivation can be found on the project page for the matplotlib package for cmocean, or in the paper Thyng, K.M., Greene, C.A., Hetland, R.D., Zimmerle, H.M., & DiMarco, S.F. True colors of oceanography Oceanography, 29(3), 9–13, 2016 (available here).
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