[netcdfgroup] John Caron demos the ToolsUI GUI (NetCDF (4.0) Tools)

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• Subject: [netcdfgroup] John Caron demos the ToolsUI GUI (NetCDF (4.0) Tools)
• From: Rich Signell <rsignell@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:36:57 -0400

Dear NetCDF/OpenDAP/NcML/THREDDS enthusiasts:

Many of you know that the ToolsUI GUI (the NetCDF 4.0 Tools App) is a
very useful tool for debugging, quick browsing and mapping of data
from NetCDF, NcML, OpenDAP URLs and more.

If you haven't seen it, it's available on this page:

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/

Get the version 4 toolsUI, which you can start via the command line or
as a Java webstart application.

For those of you who have wondered about what all those tabs do in the
ToolsUI GUI, I had a web-enabled conversation with John Caron and we
captured a WebEx
recording of John giving a demo of the features he uses most often.
The demo is about 40 minutes, and can be viewed with the WebEx
Recorder on Mac & Windows.

WebEx recording:
http://coast-enviro.er.usgs.gov/models/share/toolsUI.wrf  (46 MB)

WebEx Player (free download):
http://www.webex.com/downloadplayer.html

I learned a lot from the demo.  -- thanks John!

-Rich

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Dr. Richard P. Signell   (508) 457-2229
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