psyplot is an open source python project that mainly combines the plotting utilities of matplotlib and the data management of the xarray package. The main purpose is to have a framework that allows a fast, attractive, flexible, easily applicable, easily reproducible and especially an interactive visualization of your data. The ultimate goal is to help scientiests and especially climate model developers in their daily work by providing a flexibel visualization tool that can be enhanced by their own visualization scripts. The package is very new and there are many features that will be included in the near future. So we are very pleased for feedback! Please simply raise an issue on GitHub. The package may also be enhanced by the psyplot_gui module which provides a graphical user interface for an easier interactive usage. You can see the full documentation on readthedocs.org.