ENH: Updating example to show how to clean object and plot QC (#455)

* ENH: Updating example to show how to clean object and plot QC

* ENH: Updating a little more and adding the file I missed!

examples/plot_dqr_qc.py

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+"""
+Query the ARM DQR webservice
+----------------------------
+
+Simple example for querying the ARM DQR webservice
+and plotting up the results
+
+Author: Adam Theisen
+"""
+
+
+from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
+import act
+
+# Read in sample AOSMET data
+files = act.tests.sample_files.EXAMPLE_AOSMET
+obj = act.io.armfiles.read_netcdf(files)
+
+# Query DQR webservice for a specific variable
+# As can be seen in the "Plotting QC Flags" example
+# a call to obj.clean.cleanup() would normally be needed
+# in order to plot up ARM's QC information.  In this case
+# the call to add DQRs to the QC automatically applies that
+# cleanup so you don't have to.
+variable = 'temperature_ambient'
+obj = act.qc.arm.add_dqr_to_qc(obj, variable=variable)
+
+# Plot data
+# Creat Plot Display
+display = act.plotting.TimeSeriesDisplay(obj, figsize=(15, 10), subplot_shape=(2,))
+
+# Plot temperature data in top plot
+display.plot(variable, subplot_index=(0,))
+
+# Plot QC data
+display.qc_flag_block_plot(variable, subplot_index=(1,))
+plt.show()

examples/plot_qc.py

@@ -1,28 +1,29 @@
 """
-Query the ARM DQR webservice
-----------------------------
+Plotting QC Flags
+-----------------
 
-Simple example for querying the ARM DQR webservice
-and plotting up the results
+Simple example for cleaning up a dataset and
+plotting the data and its QC flags
 
 Author: Adam Theisen
 """
 
 
 from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
-
 import act
 
-# Read in sample AOSMET data
-files = act.tests.sample_files.EXAMPLE_AOSMET
+# Read in sample MET data
+files = act.tests.sample_files.EXAMPLE_MET1
 obj = act.io.armfiles.read_netcdf(files)
 
-# Query DQR webservice for a specific variable
-variable = 'temperature_ambient'
-obj = act.qc.arm.add_dqr_to_qc(obj, variable=variable)
+# In order to utilize all the ACT QC modules and plot the QC,
+# we need to clean up the object to follow CF standards
+obj.clean.cleanup()
+
 
 # Plot data
 # Creat Plot Display
+variable = 'temp_mean'
 display = act.plotting.TimeSeriesDisplay(obj, figsize=(15, 10), subplot_shape=(2,))
 
 # Plot temperature data in top plot