Panoply netCDF, HDF and GRIB Data Viewer
panoply \PAN-uh-plee\, noun: 1. A splendid or impressive array. ...
Panoply is a cross-platform application which plots geo-gridded arrays from netCDF, HDF and GRIB datasets. You can:
- Slice and plot specific latitude-longitude, latitude-vertical, longitude-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 ACT, CPT, GGR, or PAL color table for scale colorbar.
- Save plots to disk GIF, JPEG, PNG or TIFF bitmap images or as PDF or PostScript graphics files.
- Export lon-lat map plots in KMZ format.
- Export animations as AVI or MOV video or as a collection of invididual frame images.
- Explore remote THREDDS and OpenDAP catalogs and open datasets served there.
The current version of Panoply is 3.1.2, released 2012-03-31.
Panoply requires that your computer have a Java SE 6 runtime environment, or better, installed.
To be plotted by Panoply, dataset variables must be tagged with metadata information using a convention such as CF.
Download Panoply
- Get Panoply for Mac OS X
- Get Panoply for Windows
- Get Panoply "Generic" for Linux, OS/2, etc.
Documentation and Credits
Contact
If you wish to be notified when new versions of Panoply are released, if you would like to report a bug, or if you would like to become a Panoply beta tester, please contact the author, Dr. Robert B. Schmunk.
