Re: Front end GUI or Widet?

Just found my broswer.module libraries ... please see the
attachments. It may give you some ideas.

saji

* Saji Njarackalazhikam Hameed <saji_at_apcc21.net> [2007-07-12 14:18:11 +0900]:

> Michael,
>
> I have been trying to do something like this for my use. I worked on
> two types of mechanisms.
>
> 1. A set of routines would help to interactively subset and plot as you do
> in grads.
>
> I usually open a netcdf data and with the use of this library and
> can say things like
> setlat(-30,30)
> or
> settime("1Jun1999,20Jun1999")
> etc
>
> and do things like
> shaded(sst) or contour(sst)
>
> This routines are not so well developed and needs lot of working.
> But I can send it to you over the weekend if you are interested.
>
> 2. The second way is not really for interactive plotting. It was developed
> as part of an automated climate monitoring system. In this case we
> set up a data base with some predefined conventions and structure.
> By data base I mean just a flat data base (none of the SQL stuff).
> All data is ordered with a particular structure-
> For instance TMI/Mean/2007/sst.nc or NCEP/Anomaly/2007/hgt_1000.nc
>
> We then use an interface to retrieve data in a relatively painless way
>
> For instance to get a time series of TMI SST anomalies area-averaged
> between 30 S and 30 N and 40 E to 120 E, we could say
>
> opt=True
> opt_at_DataSource="TMI"
> opt_at_DataType="Anomaly"
> opt_at_DataPeriod=(/"1Jan1997,31Jan2007"/)
> opt_at_Lat=(/-30,30/)
> opt_at_LatAve=True
> opt_at_Lon=(/40,120/)
> opt_at_LonAve=True
> var=sliceData(opt) ; returns sst averaged over tropical Indian Ocean
> for period 1Jan1997 to 31Jan2007.
>
> If these are of interest to you, please let me know.
>
> saji
>
> * Michael Uddstrom <m.uddstrom_at_niwa.co.nz> [2007-07-12 17:02:24 +1200]:
>
> > Perhaps a dumb question - but...
> >
> > Has anyone built a gui to sit on top of ncl, so that it is easy to
> > interactively select and display fields in a file (or files) - a bit like a
> > "super ncview" application.
> >
> > If not (which we suspect might be the case) what would you suggest (GrADS,
> > IVE, ...?)
> >
> > Thanks very much for your help
> >
> > Michael
> >
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