Set aspect ratio to "equal" by default.

[tylerflex]

I'm building an application around xarray and want the xr.DataArray.plot.pcolormesh() outputs to have equal aspect ratio (same scaling of x units to y units) by default.

One way is to grab the axes object (ax) and apply ax.set_aspec('equal') after plotting, but I'm wondering whether there is any more convenient way to instead set this as a global parameter in xarray.

If all else fails, perhaps I can subclass the DataArray but I'd like to not have to per this discussion.

Thank you!

[dcherian]

I'm wondering whether there is any more convenient way to instead set this as a global parameter in xarray.

There is none. I would explore a matplotlib based solution.