NCL Website Tour

NCL Website Tour  NCL Website Tour Overview, downloading, what’s new FAQ Examples page - hundreds of examples Functions and procedures Graphical resources, color tables, font tables, other useful graphics links Tools (ncl_convert2nc, ncl_filedump) PDF Manuals, Reference Manual, PowerPoint slides Training exercises, step-by-step examples

NCL Website Tour  Overview of NCL NCL->Overview High level overview of NCL What external software it uses

NCL Website Tour  Downloading NCL Must register on Earth System Grid (one time, license agreement required) Both binaries and source code available Open source Source code build not trivial! Detailed instructions available. I can help!

NCL Website Tour  Probably the page you will visit the most Hundreds of examples for downloading Several data files available: Important links at top of page: [tips, resources, functions/procedures] Link to “.hluresfile” Examples

NCL Website Tour  Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Support->FAQ A good learning tool Some basic questions:“How do I run NCL?” to more complex: “How do I overlay contours on a map?” Lots of sample code snippets provided Categorized, but questions may not be in category you’re expecting. For example, “error messages” versus “visualization” Feel free to contribute suggestions!

NCL Website Tour  Functions/Resources Functions listed in several formats: –AlphabeticalAlphabetical –By category (graphics, interpolation, CCSM)category –By type (built-in, contributed, gsn, etc.)type Resources grouped by type (XY plot, contours, titles, labelbar, maps, gsn, etc)Resources

NCL Website Tour  Color tables NCL-Popular Links->Color Tables How to change/create your own color tablechange/create your own color table Using named colorsnamed colors Images of available color tables

NCL Website Tour  Popular links.hluresfile Markers Dash patterns Font tables Color tables, functions, resources, etc.

NCL Website Tour  Tools Popular Links->Tools ncl_convert2nc ncl_filedump WRAPIT scrip_check_input

NCL Website Tour  Mini-language and mini-graphics manuals (PDF)Mini-languagemini-graphics Comprehensive NCL Reference ManualNCL Reference Manual Getting Started Guide (old, but useful)Getting Started Guide Manuals (PDF, HTML) Popular Links->Documentation

NCL Website Tour  WRF Graphics Examples->Models->WRF

NCL Website Tour  PyNGL and PyNIO: Python modules PyNGL (Python interface to NCL’s graphical library) PyNIO (Python interface to NCL’s file I/O capabilities) Exercises (new!)

NCL Website Tour  lists Support-> Lists ncl-talk - for questions about using NCL, bug reports, announcements of new versionsncl-talk ncl-install - for questions on building or installing NCL, or setting up your environment to run itncl-install pyngl-talk - for all questions on PyNGL and PyNIOpyngl-talk

NCL Website Tour  Workshop stuff Support->Workshops->Useful Links PowerPoint slides Example scripts used in graphics lectureExample scripts Step-by-step graphical exercisesgraphical exercises Sample data filesdata files

NCL Website Tour  Useful link for workshop