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Panoply - 2.8.4

Plots globally gridded netCDF datasets.

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Panoply is a Java application which plots geo-gridded arrays from netCDF, HDF and GRIB 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 CPT, GGR, PAL, or ACT color table for scale colorbar.
Save plots to disk in GIF, PDF, PNG or PS form.

To be plotted by Panoply, dataset variables must be tagged with metadata information using a convention such as CF.

Bugfix: Creating a combination plot via use of the target menu was blocked by a perpetual "busy" message.
Watch out for data on projected lon-lat grid but with bad GeoX or GeoY axis.
Bugfix: (Mac) Plot-type dialog and plot windows not completely painted when first shown on PowerPC Macs using Java 1.5.0_20 (and possibly other 1.5 JREs).
NcArray2D refactored to allow for extracting 2D slice data in chunks if grid is very large (over 10 million data points) in order to avoid blowing out memory usage. For example, global topography at 2' resolution.
Added HE4 and HE5 to list of extensions recognized by HDF filename filter. However, this does not necessarily mean that Panoply will recognize and plot data in HDF-EOS datasets.
Bugfix: Grid not drawn for lat-vert plots if vert axes was set to grid point index.
Watch out for axes values set to NaN; replace with 0.
Library: Updated GISS mapping to version 1.3.2.
Library: (Mac) Upgrade Quaqua FC to version 6.2.

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems: