Panoply 2.8 – Plot raster images of latitude/longitude-gridded data.

Panoply 2.8

Panoply is a Java application which plots latitude-longitude, latitude-vertical or time-latitude gridded data contained in netCDF datasets.

Features include:

Slice specific 2D arrays from multidimensional variables which have more than two dimensions.
Combine two arrays in one plot by differencing, summing or averaging.
Menu of 75+ global and regional map projections for lon-lat plots.
Draw continents outlines or masks on lon-lat plots.
Apply any CPT, PAL, ACT or CWC color table for scale colorbar.
Save plots to disk using GIF, PDF, PNG or PS format.

WHAT’S NEW

Version 2.8:

Improved handling of CPT color tables, especially those using HSV color model.
Added ability to read GIMP Gradient (GGR) color tables.
Added ability to read SVG gradient color tables.
Added several additional colors to color pop-up menus. (Note: Old “green” is now “lime”).
Added ability to open HDF4 and HDF5 files. However, cannot plot data therein unless it is tagged according to a known netCDF convention.
Width of scale bar now fixed and no longer dependent on number of colors in scale color table.
(Mac) Choice of table stripe color now checks system prefs appearance setting for aqua/blue vs. graphite.
Averaging checkbox added to longitude selector in array selection panel, rather than list average as last choice in pop-up menu.
Bugfix: Background of controls on non OS X Leopard platforms.
Bugfix: (Mac) Brushed metal appearance not (always) painted in Datasets Browser toolbar.
Able to plot (Lambert) azimuthal equal-area grid mappings for lon-lat data if tagged using the CF convention.
(Mac) Switched to Quaqua file chooser with option to specify file kind.
Implemented delayed construction of table in Variable tabbed-panels if number of table data values was very large.
Dropped Earth_5×4 outline and mask continental files from distribution and added USA_MWDB2 outline.
Bugfix: Drag and drop of additional continent overlay file into lon-lat plot did not update map.
Library: Updated netCDF Java to version 4.0.48

REQUIREMENTS