The current version of Panoply is 2.6.2, released 2008-09-15.

Credits and Acknowledgments

Panoply was written by;

Panoply uses the following third-party, open-source Java libraries, provided under various licenses as listed. You may view the licenses and download the source code for these libraries at the URLs provided. More information about Panoply itself is available at http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/panoply/.

NetCDF Java library, version 2.2.22. Copyright © 1993-2008 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research/Unidata. Available at http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/. Used under terms of the Lesser GNU Public License.

The NetCDF Java library in turn includes and requires:

• Apache Commons HttpClient, Logging, and Codec libraries. Copyright © 1999-2007 the Apache Software Foundation. Used under terms of the Apache license.
• GRIB library. By the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research/Unidata. Described at http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/decoders/.
• OPeNDAP library. By the OPeNDAP Project. Copyright © the California Institute Technology, Oregon State University, et al. Described at http://www.opendap.org/.
• SLF4J library. Copyright © 2004-2005 SLF4J.org and QOS.ch. Described at http://www.slf4j.org/. Used under terms of the X11 License.

iText Java-PDF library, version 2.0. Copyright © 1999-2007 by Bruno Lowagie and Paulo Soares. Available at http://www.lowagie.com/iText/. Used under terms of the Mozilla Public License.

JDOM library, version 1.1. Copyright © 2000-2007 Jason Hunter and Brett McLaughlin. Available at http://www.jdom.org/. Used under terms of a modified Apache License.

QuantizeFilter and related classes. Copyright © 1998-2006 Jerry Huxtable. Available at http://www.jhlabs.com/ip/. Used under terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Some color tables included in the Panoply software package were obtained from J.J. Green's CPT City. See that website for many more CPT format color tables compatible with Panoply.

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