NCL Workshops

Please see a sample schedule for how NCL workshops are structured.

Always email us first to make sure the workshop dates are still valid before you make travel plans!

There are no more NCL workshops planned for 2009.
The next local workshop will likely be in early 2010.

Please check back in early November 2009 for a tentative workshop schedule for 2010.

If there are workshops listed above you are interested in attending, please send email to ncladmin@ucar.edu 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. You can see a sample schedule.
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 (projector for presentations, and UNIX computers running NCL for the students). Non-local workshops are free for students, but we ask that costs be covered your site (i.e. travel, hotel, and 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

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.