From 0f28d4c6fd16998f491787cb6223104590f6919a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julia Sloan <jsloan@caltech.edu>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 16:48:32 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] use PythonPlot for test plots

---
 .gitignore                         | 3 +++
 test/Project.toml                  | 1 +
 test/conservation_checker_tests.jl | 4 ++++
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 47e5e6369..9e8bf0063 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -51,3 +51,6 @@ testdel.jl
 # ignore vscode artifacts
 *.vscode
 *.DS
+
+# PythonPlot resources
+test/.CondaPkg/*
diff --git a/test/Project.toml b/test/Project.toml
index bf440a551..6d48907a4 100644
--- a/test/Project.toml
+++ b/test/Project.toml
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ Pkg = "44cfe95a-1eb2-52ea-b672-e2afdf69b78f"
 Plots = "91a5bcdd-55d7-5caf-9e0b-520d859cae80"
 PrettyTables = "08abe8d2-0d0c-5749-adfa-8a2ac140af0d"
 Printf = "de0858da-6303-5e67-8744-51eddeeeb8d7"
+PythonPlot = "274fc56d-3b97-40fa-a1cd-1b4a50311bf9"
 Random = "9a3f8284-a2c9-5f02-9a11-845980a1fd5c"
 SafeTestsets = "1bc83da4-3b8d-516f-aca4-4fe02f6d838f"
 SciMLBase = "0bca4576-84f4-4d90-8ffe-ffa030f20462"
diff --git a/test/conservation_checker_tests.jl b/test/conservation_checker_tests.jl
index cf072ace8..c7963219f 100644
--- a/test/conservation_checker_tests.jl
+++ b/test/conservation_checker_tests.jl
@@ -13,9 +13,13 @@ using Test
 using NCDatasets
 using Dates
 using Downloads
+using Plots
 
 import ClimaCoupler.Interfacer: AtmosModelSimulation, SurfaceModelSimulation, SurfaceStub, get_field, name
 
+# Change plotting backend to PythonPlot to avoid GR/MacOS issues
+Plots.pythonplot()
+
 REGRID_DIR = @isdefined(REGRID_DIR) ? REGRID_DIR : joinpath("", "regrid_tmp/")
 
 get_slab_energy(slab_sim, T_sfc) =