Re: neCDF software that handles standard packing attributes

• To: Alexey Goldin <Alexey.Goldin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: neCDF software that handles standard packing attributes
• From: Russ Rew <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 17:15:41 -0600

Alexey,

> Another question --- does anyone know of plotting program similar to
> xmgr or grace that can read NetCDF data, but also respects
> scale_factor and add_offset attributes?

Software packages that handle netCDF scale_factor and add_offset
attributes automatically include at least the following:

 CSIRO Matlab/netCDF interface
    http://www.marine.csiro.au/sw/matlab-netcdf.html

 Freud
    http://www.jisao.washington.edu/freud/

 FAN
    http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/russ/netcdf/fan_utils.html

 ncbrowse
    http://www.epic.noaa.gov/java/ncBrowse/

 NCO (alpha test version)
    http://nco.sourceforge.net/

Also, the next release of netCDF for Java will include a class that
handles these standard packing attributes, when present.

The list above is probably not complete.  If anyone knows of other
general-purpose packages that respect the scale_factor and add_offset
attributes for packed data, please let me know.

--Russ

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Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                     http://www.unidata.ucar.edu

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