The following tools and web sites are interesting:
| OpenDX | OpenDX is a data visualisation and analysis tool. It provides advanced three-dimensional visualization and has a graphical data-flow oriented programming language. | |
| Ferret | Ferret is a data visualisation and analysis tool. It has both a graphical and a command-line interface. Ferret can also read commands from a script file. | |
| GrADS | GrADS is another data visualisation and analysis tool. It has a command-line interface and supports script files. | |
| Vis5D | Vis5D is a tool to visualize 5-dimensional data sets. It has a graphical and a command-based interface. | |
| UNIDATA | The UNIDATA web site contains a collection of tools and the NetCDF and udunits libraries. Instructions to install the NetCDF and udunits libraries on some computer systems used in the CKO are available. | |
| GFDL Scientific Visualisation Guide | The web page on scientific visualisation of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory web site provides information on a large collection of data visualition tools. |
| Coupler library, version 0.9 | The Coupler library implements the functionality to couple ocean and atmosphere models. Data is exchanged between the models using MPI and regridded using the SCRIP tools. This library is required when coupling the CKO version of MICOM to atmosphere models. This library has been tested on Sun SPARC and Linux PCs with Portland Group f90. The installation instructions are included in the package in the README file. | |
| Field library, version 1.2 | The Field library provides high-level access to gridded data fields in a data format independent manner. This library requires the NetCDF library version 3.4 (or later) and udunits library version 1.11.7 available at UNIDATA. This library is required by the CKO versions of MICOM and Bausteinen and by ECBilt. This library has been tested on SGI, DEC Alpha, Fujitsu VPP, Sun SPARC, and Linux PCs with Portland Group f90. The installation instructions and documentation are included in the package. Both are available on-line (installation and documentation) as well. | |
| Bausteinen | The Bausteinen are a collection of tools for processing climate data. In the original version these tools used the "extra" data format. Several of the tools (add, correl, detrend, eof, run_mean, subtract, and svd) have now been rewritten to use NetCDF instead. In order to install the Bausteinen you should install the Field library first. The Bausteinen have been tested on SGI and DEC Alpha. The installation instructions and user documentation are distributed with the package. | |
| ncedit | Ncedit is a interactive tool that enables you to edit the information contained in NetCDF files: attributes, dimensions, and variables. It is primarily intended to make corrections to automatically generated NetCDF files that serve as input to climate models, e.g., to fix the land-sea mask in ocean model input. This tool has been developed in C++ on Linux and requires next to the netcdf library, the STL (which comes with GCC), Motif 2.1 (LessTif does not work unfortunately), Xbae-4.7 and nana-2.5 libraries. Installation instructions are included with the package and are also available on-line. A compiled and statically linked executable compressed with gzip is available for Linux (1.7 Mb). |
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