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NCL Workshops
Please see a sample schedule for how NCL workshops are structured.The deadline has passed for applying for a free workshop at a qualifying UCAR-member university. We may offer this opportunity again for FY09.
Other NCL workshops for 2008 have been scheduled. Please note that dates are subject to change, and you should check with us before booking your hotel and airfare!
| July 8-11, 2008 Registration deadline: July 1, 2008 | CTTC in Boulder, Colorado |
| August 25-29, 2008 | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| October 14-17, 2008 Registration deadline: October 7, 2008 | CTTC in Boulder, Colorado |
If there are workshops listed above you are interested in attending, please send email to Mary Haley by the indicated registration deadline, and include the answers to this short survey.
[List of past workshops.]
Background
- Workshop are generally 4 days, with the first two days being
lectures combined with hands-on labs, and the last two days being
optional labs.
- Local workshops are free, and held at NCAR's CTTC which provides
a computer for every attendee. Space is limited to 16 students.
- We are also available to teach workshops at your site, if time
permits and there is an appropriate teaching lab available (project
presentations, and computers running NCL for the students). Non-local
workshops are free for students, but we ask that travel costs be
shared by our site and yours (i.e. you pay transportation and hotel
costs, and we pay per diem). If you are interested in having us teach
a workshop at your site, please email Mary Haley.
Lecture Topics
- Overview of NCL
- Language basics
- File input/output
- Data analysis
- Graphics
Links for participants
- PowerPoint lectures
- NCL graphics exercises
- Example scripts used in graphics lectures
- Reference manuals (hard copy and online)
- Directions to facilities
Prerequisites
Students are expected to have at least a basic knowledge of Linux or Unix, and know how to edit files on a UNIX system using an editor like vi, emacs, or nedit.
Familiarity with an interpreted (e.g. Python, IDL, MATLAB) or non-interpreted (e.g. Fortran, C) computer language is highly desirable. Students who don't have knowledge of any computer languages may find the NCL workshop too advanced.
Should you be interested?
NCL is a supported general purpose data analysis and visualization tool. It facilitates accessing data in a variety of formats including netCDF, GRIB1, GRIB2, HDF and HDF-EOS. Many unique analysis functions are built-in and users can readily use existing fortran/C codes. Flexible high quality graphics with many WWW accessible examples are available.
Coming to a workshop from off site?
Here is a link to hotel information and maps and a more detailed map of the location of the CTTC at the Center Green facility. Only UCAR/NCAR employees can gain access. Other visitors must use the phone outside the door to call us. We will have a poster with the number taped to the box.