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I am attempting to do something similar to this:

sample ozone profile

Not necessarily over an orthographic projection - a cube over a map would suffice.

I'm able to plot the PolyCollection object produced by matplotlib.pyplot.pcolor, but cannot figure out if there's an accepted way of plotting the profile over an arbitrary lat/lon path.

The only thing I can think of right now is continuing to use pcolor() to get the face colors, then just modifying the vertices for each Poly object.

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If you want to create a 3D projection, then you may use the plot_surface. It essentially draws a 2D array where the 3D coordinates of each vertex is given.

You might get some ideas by looking at this: Creating intersecting images in matplotlib with imshow or other function

The matplotlib solution there is essentially the same as using pcolor, but the 3D arithmetics is carried out by matplotlib. The suggestion to use mayavi is also something worth conisdering, as matplotlib is not at its strongest with 3D projected raster data.

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