Re: neCDF software that handles standard packing attributes

• To: Russ Rew <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: neCDF software that handles standard packing attributes
• From: Steve Hankin <hankin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 16:31:43 -0700

Hi Alexy,

The Ferret program also handles scale_factor and add_offset automatically:

    http://www.ferret.noaa.gov/Ferret/

    - steve

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Russ Rew wrote:

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

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