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Panoply is a cross-platform application which plots geo-gridded arrays from netCDF, HDF and GRIB datasets. Panoply is a cross-platform software application whose purpose is to help you plot raster images. It lets you view photos created with NetCDF, HDF, GEMPACK, GRIB and other datasets, and combine or slice geo-gridded and other types of arrays. Files can be imported in the working environment using the built-in browse button or drag-and-drop support. You are allowed to add data from one of the datasets mentioned at the beginning of the review and print or export plots to KMZ, GIF, PDF, PNG, PS, AVI or MOV file format. In addition, you may save data to CSV, CDL or plain text file format.

Panoply is a noteworthy and comprehensive software application that helps you plot and analyze raster images of geo-gridded data from NetCDF and other datasets. The GUI cannot be described as highly intuitive so rookies may need extra time to get used to working with it.


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 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.