Currently, there are still many scientific publications showing lidar curtain images that are plotted with colormaps, such as the rainbow or jet, that poorly represent the data because they distort the information through non-linear changes in the perceived lightness. Those colormaps are also very difficult to interpret for people affected by a color-vision deficiency, which affects around 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women. Based on growing demand for accessibility, scientific journals are now making color-vision deficiency accessibility a priority as part of the submission requirement. Here we propose a set of colorblind-friendly colormaps for atmospheric lidar observations associated with cloud and aerosol studies.
Guélis et al. (Thu,) studied this question.