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Improve global map plots by using Robinson projection and add coastlines#112

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Pull Request Summary

This PR improves the global map plots by using Robinson projection and adding coastlines.

Description

This PR incorporates Jessica Meixner's updates to pvalstats.py, enhancing the global map plots by introducing the Robinson projection and adding coastlines for improved visualization clarity.

Issue(s) addressed

fixes #111

Commit Message

Improve global map plots by using Robinson projection and add coastlines

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  • Branch is up to date with the authoritative repository (NOAA-EMC) develop branch.

Testing

  • How were these changes tested?
    This improvement has been used for retrotest evaluations on Orion.
    In addition, a simple test has performed on Ursa /scratch3/NCEPDEV/marine/Ming.Chen/ursa/improvedGM. Plots can be found in /scratch3/NCEPDEV/marine/Ming.Chen/ursa/improvedGM/processsatdata/outeval

Here are some example figures:

plot_Hs_GFSv16_combined_day01_JASON3_global_RMSE plot_Hs_Retrov17_01_combined_day01_JASON3_global_RMSE plot_Hs_GFSv16_combined_day01_JASON3_global_Bias plot_Hs_Retrov17_01_combined_day01_JASON3_global_Bias

@JessicaMeixner-NOAA JessicaMeixner-NOAA self-requested a review April 23, 2026 19:44
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Add coastlines and introduce the Robinson projection in global map plots

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