Panoply

Panoply plots geo-gridded arrays of latitude-longitude, latitude-vertical, or time-latitude data encoded in netCDF, HDF, and GRIB format.

Features

• Slice specific 2D arrays from multidimensional variables which have more than two dimensions.
• Combine two arrays in one plot by differencing, summing or averaging.
• Menu of 80+ global and regional map projections for lon-lat plots.
• Draw continents outlines or masks on lon-lat plots.
• Apply any CPT, GGR, PAL, or ACT color table for scale colorbar.
• Save plots to disk using GIF, JPEG, PDF, PNG, PS, or TIFF format.

• Better handling of Y-axis orientation for "generic 2D" plots where Y axis is depth.
• Bugfix: KMZ export options were lost before saving file.
• Bugfix: KMZ export colorbar background not painted, making black text, etc., invisible.
• Bugfix: Plot of rotated-pole lon-lat data could be blank for certain combinations of plot size and rotation parameters.
• Bugfix: Various issues if trying to export animation of a variable with no independent dimension.
• Bugfix: Could not create georeferenced plot if variable had a coordinate var of type byte.
• Bugfix: Tickmarks not drawn on logarithmic plot axes.
• Improve appearance of log-in dialog if required to access remote data or catalog, and made log-in message clickable if it contained a URL.
• Added controls for changing size of axes caption text.
• Library: Updated netCDF-Java to v. 4.6.10.
• Bugfix: Relative-time handler did not handle large negative values correctly.
• Added ability to make vector plots of "generic" 2D data.
• Refactored vector plotting in lat-vert and lon-vert plots.
• Added "Fit to Color Table Range" plot menu item. This requires that the selected color table provide a range as, for example, the CPT format may do.
• Refactored event handling for several of the scale setting actions.
• Library: Updated slf4j to v. 1.7.25.
• Bugfix: Mixed-dashes and dotted stroke style patterns were swapped.
• Bugfix: Reduce calls to perform repaints that could be caused by cursor movement.
• Added dotted-minor contour stroke option.
• Added stroke style options to line line plot preferences.
• Minor re-organization of preferences tabs.
• Library: Updated GISSmap to v. 2.0.3.
• Bugfix: Line plotting included bad/missing/fill values if other than NaN.
• Added ability to paint nightside shading on lon-lat map plots.
• Added plotting of lon-lat trajectories, but requires that dataset follows CF convention for trajectory "featureType". Note: Can be very slow if trajectories are long (i.e., > 50k pts.).
• Dropped support for exporting animations in QuickTime or AVI format due to age of library and inadequacies of the results, as compared to exporting as MP4.
• Improve error reporting when unable to plot due to dimension variable with wrong rank.