Netcdf Viewer

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Netcdf Viewer

Netcdf Viewer

1362 panoply \PAN-uh-plee\, noun: 1. A splendid or impressive array. ...

Panoply is a Java application from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies that plots geo-gridded arrays from netCDF datasets. You can:

• Slice and plot specific latitude-longitude, latitude-vertical, or time-latitude arrays from larger multidimensional variables.
• Combine two arrays in one plot by differencing, summing or averaging.
• Plot lon-lat data on a global or regional map (using any of over 75 map projections) or make a zonal average lineplot.
• Overlay continent outlines or masks on lon-lat plots.
• Use any PAL, ACT or CWC color table for scale colorbar.
• Save plots to disk in GIF, PDF, PNG or PS form.

Panoply requires that your computer have a Java 5 runtime environment, or better, installed.

New in version 2.4.1:
• Updated to use Unidata's netCDF-Java library version 2.2.22.9.
• Updated to use GISS mapping library consistent with G.Projector 1.1.1, including one new projection.
• (Mac) Bugfix: Map border and graticule curves were not anti-aliased on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
• (Mac) Bugfix: Table row header values were not drawn on Mac OS X Leopard. Also, column headings were not justified as desired on Leopard.
• (Mac) Updated icons and added larger icons for Mac OS X Leopard desktop cover flow.
• (Mac) Re-sizing of plot controls uses size-variant property setting if Mac OS X Leopard detected.
• Bugfix: RelativeTime handler rounded off fractional offsets to nearest whole time unit.
• Modified RelativeTime handler to allow for "year 0" sometimes used as origin date in climate model datasets.

System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Java 1.5 or later

System Support:
PPC/Intel

Free

For more information, visit:
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/panoply/