From a0bebf8a25fe6bd1dc941b1ae45596acc0b30483 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aaron Spring <draaronspring@proton.me>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:09:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Remove plots metadata not supported by intake v2

---
 HOWTOCONTRIBUTE.rst        |  1 -
 README.md                  |  1 -
 catalogs/atmosphere.yaml   | 34 ----------------------------
 catalogs/ocean/carbon.yaml | 45 --------------------------------------
 4 files changed, 81 deletions(-)

diff --git a/HOWTOCONTRIBUTE.rst b/HOWTOCONTRIBUTE.rst
index c69bd386..a058716e 100644
--- a/HOWTOCONTRIBUTE.rst
+++ b/HOWTOCONTRIBUTE.rst
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ How to contribute a new dataset
 - assign a new remote shapefile to the ``shapefiles`` catalog
 - try to add ``"simplecache::"`` to the ``urlpath`` to allow caching
 - try to add documentation as URL and DOI in ``metadata``
-- try to add informative quick plots to ``metadata.plot``
 - try to account for many versions or variables with templating the ``urlpath`` with ``parameters``
 
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8c8f23e4..93a15a3f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -120,7 +120,6 @@ Make data access for climate data easy:
 - [`intake_excel`](https://github.com/edjdavid/intake-excel) for Excel `xls` and `xlsx` [[example](https://github.com/aaronspring/remote_climate_data/blob/1209c5ebf5877b09b4403ea60da6d97b374b7b5c/catalogs/climate.yaml#L35)]
 - [`intake_geopandas`](https://github.com/intake/intake_geopandas) for shapefiles `shp` [[example](https://github.com/aaronspring/remote_climate_data/blob/1209c5ebf5877b09b4403ea60da6d97b374b7b5c/catalogs/shapefiles.yaml#L11)], GeoJSON `geo.json` [[example](https://github.com/aaronspring/remote_climate_data/blob/1209c5ebf5877b09b4403ea60da6d97b374b7b5c/catalogs/shapefiles.yaml#L57)], GeoParquet `parquet`, `PostGIS` databases, `Spatialite` databases
 - [`regionmask`](https://regionmask.readthedocs.io/) for aggregating over geoshapes
-- [`hvplot`](https://hvplot.holoviz.org/index.html) for plotting [[example](https://github.com/aaronspring/remote_climate_data/blob/1209c5ebf5877b09b4403ea60da6d97b374b7b5c/catalogs/atmosphere.yaml#L48)]
 
 ## Similar projects
 - Pangeo's cloud data catalogs for multi GB and TB datasets: https://github.com/pangeo-data/pangeo-datastore
diff --git a/catalogs/atmosphere.yaml b/catalogs/atmosphere.yaml
index f588d7cd..d9635863 100644
--- a/catalogs/atmosphere.yaml
+++ b/catalogs/atmosphere.yaml
@@ -12,23 +12,6 @@ sources:
     metadata:
       url: https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/
       doi: http://doi.org/10.1029/2011JD017187
-      plots:
-        temperature_anomaly_over_time:
-          title: HadCRUT4.6.0.0 temperature anomly wrt. 1960-1989
-          x: longitude
-          y: latitude
-          z: temperature_anomaly
-          ylim:
-            - -90
-            - 90
-          xlim:
-            - -180
-            - 180
-          clim: (-5, 5)
-          groupby: time
-          label: Temperature Anomaly [K]
-          cmap: RdBu_r
-          coastline: true
     driver: netcdf
     args:
       urlpath: simplecache::https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/HadCRUT.4.6.0.0.median.nc
@@ -44,23 +27,6 @@ sources:
     metadata:
       url: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcrut5/
       doi: http://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD032361
-      plots:
-        temperature_anomaly_over_time:
-          title: HadCRUT5.0.0.0 temperature anomly wrt. 1960-1989
-          x: longitude
-          y: latitude
-          z: tas_mean
-          ylim:
-            - -90
-            - 90
-          xlim:
-            - -180
-            - 180
-          clim: (-5, 5)
-          groupby: time
-          label: Temperature Anomaly [K]
-          cmap: RdBu_r
-          coastline: true
     driver: netcdf
     args:
       urlpath: simplecache::https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/HadCRUT.5.0.0.0.analysis.anomalies.ensemble_mean.nc
diff --git a/catalogs/ocean/carbon.yaml b/catalogs/ocean/carbon.yaml
index 2a156bc6..c3776ba4 100644
--- a/catalogs/ocean/carbon.yaml
+++ b/catalogs/ocean/carbon.yaml
@@ -36,33 +36,6 @@ sources:
       doi:
         paper: https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GB005359
         data: https://doi.org/10.7289/V5Z899N6
-      plots:
-        fgco2_over_time:
-          title: SOM-FFN fgco2 over time
-          kind: contourf
-          x: lon
-          y: lat
-          z: fgco2_smoothed
-          groupby: time
-          cmap: RdBu_r
-          levels: 20
-          clim: (-10, 10)
-        fgco2_timeseries_location:
-          title: fgco2 timeseries at (lon,lat) location
-          kind: line
-          x: time
-          y: fgco2_smoothed
-          groupby:
-            - lon
-            - lat
-        fgco2_timeseries_latitude:
-          title: fgco2 timeseries at latitude
-          kind: contourf
-          y: time
-          x: lon
-          z: fgco2_smoothed
-          groupby: lat
-          levels: 20
     parameters:
       version:
         description: version release in year
@@ -107,24 +80,6 @@ sources:
         paper: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2537-2020
         data: https://doi.org/10.25921/qb25-f418
       readme: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/oceans/ncei/ocads/data/0209633/README_merged.pdf
-      plots:
-        fgco2_over_time:
-          title: MPI-ULB-SOM_FFN pco2 over time
-          x: lon
-          y: lat
-          z: pco2
-          groupby: time
-          cmap: viridis
-          levels: 20
-          clim: (-10, 10)
-        pco2_timeseries_location:
-          title: pco2 timeseries at (lon,lat) location
-          kind: line
-          x: time
-          y: pco2
-          groupby:
-            - lon
-            - lat
     args:
       urlpath: simplecache::https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/oceans/ncei/ocads/data/0209633/MPI-ULB-SOM_FFN_clim.nc
       chunks: