Freeware Descriptions:
Panoply is a Java application which enables the user to plot raster images of geo-gridded data from netCDF datasets. Panoply is an utility that enable user to plot raster image. Depending on the data, it can draw global longitude-latitude images or pole-to-pole latitude-vertical images.
Here is complete features (taken from authors site):
- Slice specific latitude-longitude or latitude-vertical arrays from larger multidimensional variables.
- Combine two arrays in one plot by differencing, summing or averaging.
- Plot longitude-latitude data as global maps or zonal averages.
- Plot longitude-latitude data using any of over 40 global map projections, or just plot a particular region.
- Overlay continent outlines or masks on longitude-latitude plots.
- Use any PAL, ACT or CWC color table for scale colorbar.
- Save plots to disk in GIF, PDF, PNG or PS form.
Requires Java Runtime Environment.
What’s New in version 2.8.3:
- Added Clear Menu item to Recent Files menu
- Bugfix: Show Contours & Vectors menu item did not work
- Eliminated floating progress windoid Replaced it with status bar at bottom of application windows
- If started from the command line, added option to allow for multiple instances of Panoply to run at one time Use “-multi” argument
- Added ability to save plot images in uncompressed TIFF format
- Added ability to save plot images in uncompressed JPEG format
- Bugfix: Possible null pointer condition could break examination of a lon-lat variable using alternative grid
- Bugfix: Annoying Datasets Browser repaint flicker on some platforms
- Library: Updated netCDF-Java to version 4049
- Library: Updated GISS mapping to version 131

File Size / OS:
- 9.4 MB / Windows 9x - ME - 2000 - NT - XP - 2003 - Vista
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