Panoply is a free and complex, cross-platform application that plots geo-gridded arrays from netCDF, HDF and GRIB datasets.

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

Here are some key features of "Panoply":

· 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 ACT, CPT, GGR, or PAL color table for scale colorbar.
· Save plots to disk GIF, JPEG, PNG or TIFF bitmap images or as PDF or PostScript graphics files.
· Export lon-lat map plots in KMZ format.

Requirements:

· Java 1.5 or later

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

· Further improvement to handling of auxiliary lon-lat grids with longitude values straddling ±180°E.
· Bug fix: Sources tree-table would not accept two datasets with same name, even if located in different locations.
· Export to KMZ option for lon-lat map plots now available no matter what map projection has been applied.
· Watch out for file metadata that has HTML-escape characters.
· Able to open local GRIB-1 table lookup lists.
· Reduced time for initial scan of data by up to 75%, which significantly reduced time to create plot window if array is extremely large (i.e., more than 50 million values). Shifted secondary scan off of event thread in order to avoid initially blank plot window in such cases.
· Use actual_range attribute for data min and max if array is of rank 2 and if attribute is present.
· Library: netCDF-Java updated (v. 4.2.29).
· Library: JDOM updated (v. 1.1.2).
· Library: Apache Commons Lang added (v. 3.1).