GrADS
The Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) is an interactive
desktop tool
that is used for easy access, manipulation, and visualization of earth
science data. The format of the data may be either binary, GRIB,
NetCDF, or HDF-SDS (Scientific Data Sets).
GrADS has been implemented worldwide on
a variety of operating systems.
GrADS uses a 4-Dimensional data environment: longitude,
latitude, vertical level, and time. Data sets are placed within the 4-D
space by use of a data descriptor file. GrADS interprets station data
as well as gridded data, and the grids may be regular, non-linearly
spaced, gaussian, or of variable resolution.
GrADS 2.0.2
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Price
Free to download
Size
10.2MB
License
GNU GPL v2
Developer
Brian Doty and the Institute of Global Environment
and Society (IGES)
Website
www.iges.org/grads
System Requirements
libgfortran 3
libhdf5-serial 1.8.4 or higher
libnetcdf6
libudunuts 2
Support
Sites:
Users
Guide, Tutorial,
OpenGrADS,
Mailing
List,
Selected
Reviews:
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Features include:
- Display data in a number of graphical techniques: Line and
bar graphs, scatter plots, smoothed contours, shaded contours, vector,
streamlines, wind vectors, grid boxes, shaded grid boxes, and station
model plots
- Reads GRIB (version 1 and 2), gridded binary, BUFR, GrADS
station data, NetCDF (classic and NetCDF-4), HDF4-SDS, HDF5, and
OPeNDAP (grids and station data)
- Writes binary, NetCDF (classic and NetCDF-4), GeoTIFF, KML
- Draws and writes shapefiles
- Animate images
- Programmable interface (scripting language) that allows
complex analysis and display applications. It is similar to REXX in
implementation
- Batch mode
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