Panoply

Panoply plots geo-gridded arrays of latitude-longitude, latitude-vertical, or time-latitude data encoded in netCDF, HDF, and GRIB format.

Features

• 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 80+ global and regional map projections for lon-lat plots.
• Draw continents outlines or masks on lon-lat plots.
• Apply any CPT, GGR, PAL, or ACT color table for scale colorbar.
• Save plots to disk using GIF, JPEG, PDF, PNG, PS, or TIFF format.

• Bugfix: Save-image always invoked save-image-as file dialog.
• Bugfix: Symbol size for point shapefile map overlays did not scale with plot size.
• Bugfix: Save dialog not showing suggested file name when first constructed.
• Bugfix: Search for coordinate variables when constructing plot could quietly fail if null dimension encountered.
• Improved clean-up of canceled tasks, e.g., halting an animation export before completion.
• Refactored color table and map overlay management, moving code into GISSutils and GISSmap libraries.
• Added ability to save PS and PDF plot graphics in fully vectorized form rather than as a combination of vector art and bitmap. This option must be enabled via the preferences.
• Output "paper size" for saved PS and PDF graphics may be specified via preferences. Default is "US Letter".
• Bugfix: Drawing of vector lon-lat plot could be blocked for exceptional combinations of map projection parameters and plot size.
• (OS X) Replaced Quaqua filechooser with native file dialog called via JNI/libpanoply.
• Library: Updated GISSmap to v. 1.7.5.
• Longitude and latitude grid spacing may have different values on map plots.