panoply \PAN-uh-plee\, noun: 1. A splendid or impressive array. ...

The current version of Panoply is 2.8.2, released 2009-07-22.

Panoply is a Java application which plots geo-gridded arrays from netCDF, HDF and GRIB datasets. You can:

• Slice and plot specific latitude-longitude, latitude-vertical, or time-latitude arrays from larger multidimensional variables.
• Combine two arrays in one plot by differencing, summing or averaging.
• Plot lon-lat data on a global or regional map (using any of over 75 map projections) or make a zonal average lineplot.
• Overlay continent outlines or masks on lon-lat plots.
• Use any CPT, GGR, PAL, or ACT color table for scale colorbar.
• Save plots to disk in GIF, PDF, PNG or PS form.
• Export lon-lat map plots in KMZ format.

To be plotted by Panoply, dataset variables must be tagged with metadata information using a convention such as CF.

Panoply requires that your computer have a Java 5 runtime environment, or better, installed.

Download Panoply

• Get Panoply for Mac OS X
• Get Panoply for Windows
• Get Panoply "Generic" for Linux, OS/2, etc.

• Download Extra Map Overlays

Documentation and Credits

• User's Guide (incomplete)
• Credits and Acknowledgments
• License
• Version History

Contact

If you wish to be notified when new versions of Panoply are released, if you would like to report a bug, or if you would like to become a Panoply beta tester, please contact the author, Dr. Robert B. Schmunk.