1. Post Processing Tools Sylvia Murphy murphys@ucar.edu National Center for Atmospheric Research

2. 2 Purpose Provide a brief introduction into the suites of utilities available to visualize and data process CCSM output

3. 3 Outline NCL CCSM Support Web Site Graphics Data Processing CMPS NCO Tech Support

4. 4 NCL (NCAR Command Language) All supported tools are written in NCL An interpreted language Extensive graphics capability 300+ data processing functions Robust file IO Free http://ngwww.ucar.edu/ncl/

5. 5 http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/csm/support/ Web Site

6. 6 Graphics http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/csm/support/CSM_Graphics

7. 7 Cylindrical Equidistant Projections

8. 8 Polar Stereographic Projections

9. 9 XY plots

10. 10 Slices

11. 11 Vector Plots

12. 12 Data Processing

13. 13 Component Model Processing Suite

14. 14 netCDF Operators Only work on netCDF data Supported by source forge Worth downloading and installing ncecatncrcatncattedncrename nceancrancdiffncks http://nco.sourceforge.net/

15. 15 Tech Support NCL talk http://ngwww.ucar.edu/ncl-talk Web site Workshops http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/csm/support/Document/workshop.shtml Consulting: 303-497-1720 murphys@ucar.edu

16. 16 Summary Lots of published tools On line documentation NCL workshops One-on-one consulting