NCAR Command Languge and NCAR Graphics

General information

NCL is an interpreted language designed specifically for scientific data analysis and visualization

Documentation

• Detailed description is found at the NCL home page,
• use option --help to see an overview of relevant options

Usage at HLRN

Modulefiles and environmental variables

• load a module to activate the path to the binaries
• loading the module files implies setting NCARG_ROOT

Program start

• aftern loading the module, start issuing ncl
• the following binaries are provided:

cgm2ncgm fcaps idt ncargf90 ncarlogo2ps ncl_filedump nhlf90 pswhite rassplit tlocal ConvertMapData findg MakeNcl ncargfile ncarvversion ncl_grib2nc nnalg pwritxnt rasstat WRAPIT ctlib fontc med ncargpath ncgm2cgm ncl.xq.fix pre2ncgm ras2ccir601 rasview wrapit77 ctrans gcaps ncargcc ncargrun ncgmstat ng4ex pre2ncgm.prog rascat scrip_check_input WriteLineFile ESMF_!RegridWeightGen graphc ncargex ncargversion ncl nhlcc psblack rasgetpal tdpackdemo WriteNameFile ezmapdemo ictrans ncargf77 ncargworld ncl_convert2nc nhlf77 psplit rasls tgks0a WritePlotcharData

HLRN specific installation

installation from predefined binary. The binary is downloaded from download page

Linked netcdf-library versions: netcdf 4.6.1 opendap enabled