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>Keywords: 199503211819.AA28912 Hi Paul, > I am a bonehead. I wiped out and started over and.... > amazingly, everything seem to work. > > Things must have gotten scewed (by my own boneheadedness) in my old > distribution. No problem, I'm glad it worked this time. > I have another question, this one is short though (don't bother > answering it if this is something I should post to the group.). > > I am looking for a "generic" applications that will: > - read a generic netCDF file > - allow the user to get a list of the different variables > - do plotting of some variable vs. another variable > - do simple statistical analysis, mean, stddev., etc > > I've been looking at the "NetCDF Operators and Utilities" (ncprogs.ps) > document and some of the software available free in "utilities.txt" > (also on Mosaic I see). I'd stick with what's in the utilities document, and view the WWW form: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/utilities.html as it's got lot's more information if you follow the links and you can even see what the output of some of the packages look like that way. The `ncopers' document is getting old and we haven't had the resources to do much development, while others have produced some very useful packages in the absence of ncopers. > A lot of these packages go overboard. I want something like simplistic > like "ncview" that can do simple plotting and statistics on vectors, > or matricies of data where user can just point and click. > > Any off the top of your head? > > I'm continuing my investigation of those in "utilities.txt" I like the IDL package ncbrowse, but it requires that you already have IDL. Others have spoken highly of the ACE/gr package, but I haven't used it yet. Actually, I haven't used many of the packages that are described in the utilities document, so if you decide to compare a few, I'd be interested in your conclusions. I maintain the utilities document and add new packages whenever I come across them, but that doesn't mean there aren't more I'm not aware of. Recently I've got wind of a couple more packages, but I haven't had time to contact the authors yet to see what information is available. When I do, I'll add an entry in the "What's New" page. --Russ