Category List of NCL Application Examples

This page contains links to hundreds of NCL scripts, and in most cases, a link to the graphic produced by that script. You can download any one of these scripts and plug in your own datasets. You can also download all of the scripts as a compressed tar file. (Use "tar -xvf ApplicationScripts.tgz" to extract the scripts.)

Some of the datasets used in these examples are available for download. If you need access to a dataset that doesn't have a link, send Mary Haley an email.

Most of the examples on this Applications page use the GSUN interfaces. We recommend that users install the .hluresfile in their home directory before running any of these scripts.

Click on any green category for a separate page of that categories listings only, and possibly more information.

[Alphabetical listing]

Datasets

AVHRR

COAMPS

COADS

CRU

EASE

EOS-DIS

ERA40

MCSST

NARR

NOGAPS

seaWiFs

station data

Map projections

Maps only

General

Coastlines

Cylindrical equidistant

Lambert conformal (masked)

Lambert conformal (native)

Native grid

Polar stereographic

Satellite

Tickmarks: map

Models

COAMPS

CCSM: Ice

CCSM: Land

CCSM: POP

HOMME (SEAM) grids

NOGAPS

Ocean: HYCOM

Ocean: NCOM

Ocean: NLOM

Ocean: ORCA

Ocean: ROMS

Paleoclimatology

PIPS

Regional Climate Model

TIGGE Project

WRF

Data Processing

Anomalies

Climatology

COADS

Correlations

Divergent and rotational wind components

EOFs

Filters

GrADS CTL files

Isentropic levels

Local minima and maxima

Meridional overturning

NCL system interactions

Omega

Regression

Regridding

Sigma coordinate interpolation

Spectral analysis

Time coordinates

Transects

Vertical interpolation

Vorticity

Wavelets

Weighted averages

Zonal

Plot Types

Bar charts

Box plots

Contours: no maps

Contours: cylindrical equidistant

Contours: native grid

Contours: polar stereographic

Contours: satellite

Latitude vs. time

Panel plots

Press/height vs. latitude

Press/height vs. longitude

Press/height vs. time

Slices

Streamlines

Time vs. longitude

Time vs. latitude

Trajectories

Tropical strip plots

Vectors

XY plots

Plot Techniques

2-dimensional vertical coordinates

Coastlines

Color fill

Contour levels

Contour on contour

Contour effects

Contour labels

Equations

Font heights

Labelbars

Layout tricks

Legends

Logo, NCAR

Masking

Polygons

Polylines

Polymarkers

Raster

Resizing

Text

Tick marks

Titles

Weather symbols

Special Plots

Bar charts

Box plots

Evans plots

Histograms

Iso levels

Meteograms

Skew-T

Taylor diagram

3D plots

Unique

Wind barbs

Wind rose

Non-uniform grids

Adaptive grids

ARPEGE grids

Geodesic grids

HOMME (SEAM) grids

ORCA grids

Triangular meshes

File I/O

Change netCDF file

Dump output of supported files

GRIB to netCDF

OPeNDAP (DODS)

Output ascii

Output binary

Output netCDF

Parsing ascii files

Read ascii

Read ascii gridded data

Read ascii multi columnar data

Read ascii time series data

Read binary

Read supported formats

Read multiple files

Miscellaneous

Command line options

GrADS CTL files

object-oriented