Panoply is a complex Java program that plots raster images of latitude-longitude gridded data contained within netCDF datasets.

Features include: menu of 30 global map projections, slice specific latitude-longitude arrays from multidimensional arrays which also have dimensions in altitude, time, etc., combine two arrays in one plot by differencing, summing or averaging, draw continents outlines or overlays on the plot.

Panoply is also able to save plots to disk as GIF or PNG images.

Here are some key features of "Panoply":

· Select from a menu of over 30 global map projections.
· Slice specific latitude-longitude arrays from multidimensional arrays which also have dimensions in altitude, time, etc.
· Combine two arrays in one plot by differencing, summing or averaging.
· Draw continents outlines or overlays on the plot.
· Apply any PAL, ACT, or CWC color table to plot scale.
· Panoply is also able to save plots to disk as GIF or PNG images.

Requirements:

· Java 1.5 or later.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Bugfix: Creating a combination plot via use of the target menu was blocked by a perpetual "busy" message.
· Watch out for data on projected lon-lat grid but with bad GeoX or GeoY axis.
· Bugfix: (Mac) Plot-type dialog and plot windows not completely painted when first shown on PowerPC Macs using Java 1.5.0_20 (and possibly other 1.5 JREs).
· NcArray2D refactored to allow for extracting 2D slice data in chunks if grid is very large (over 10 million data points) in order to avoid blowing out memory usage. For example, global topography at 2' resolution.
· Added HE4 and HE5 to list of extensions recognized by HDF filename filter. However, this does not necessarily mean that Panoply will recognize and plot data in HDF-EOS datasets.
· Bugfix: Grid not drawn for lat-vert plots if vert axis was set to grid point index.
· Watch out for axes values set to NaN; replace with 0.
· Library: Updated GISS mapping to version 1.3.2.
· Library: (Mac) Upgrade Quaqua FC to version 6.2.