NCAR Graphics 4.1 software set for summer release

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by Lynda Lester SCD has scheduled a new version of NCAR Graphics software, Version 4.1, for release late this summer. Version 4.1 offers an increase in data manipulation and visualization capabilities, making it easier to create high-quality scientific visualizations. New features in the NCAR Graphics 4.1 package include: An enhanced version of the NCAR Command Language, NCL (a data analysis language) Upgrades to the Fortran graphics utilities Direct access to multiple data formats, including netCDF, HDF, GRIB, NCAR Community Climate Model (CCM), ASCII, IEEE binary, and Cray binary The new look of NCL NCL, an interpreted command language, has been enhanced in Version 4.1. The new NCL offers a set of applications with which you can compute statistics and correlations, do regridding and interpolations, and perform spherical harmonic transformations. NCL upgrades include: More than 70 new functions and procedures New mathematical functions Command-line editing Dynamic linking of C and Fortran objects files Wind barbs in vector plots The classic look of Fortran utilities NCAR Graphics 4.1 software also features upgrades to the Fortran graphics utilities, including: Updates to the Ezmap package Tdpack, a new package for drawing 3-D objects (including lines, polygons, surfaces, and isosurfaces) A new math library, Ngmath, which incorporates: Fitgrid, a package for interpolating 1- and 2-D gridded data Natgrid, a package for interpolating 2-D random data Dsgrid, a package for interpolating 3-D random data More information is available in this issue of SCDzine on Fitgrid, Natgrid, and Dsgrid. Version 4.1 will be the last release of the NCAR Graphics Fortran utilities for some time. These utilities will continue to exist in the NCAR Graphics package, but will not be included in the first release of the new NCAR DataVision package, coming in FY99. Special incentives SCD is offering these special incentives to users: If you license NCAR Graphics 4.0 software now, you will receive an automatic upgrade to Version 4.1. If you already hold a license for NCAR Graphics 4.0 software, you can license Version 4.1 at a substantial discount. All site reps and site installers should look for the Limited-time Discount Renewal Form in the near future. All NCAR Graphics 4.1 license holders will automatically receive NCAR DataVision software when it is released (expected in FY99). For more information For more information, call 303-497-1201, send e-mail to ncarginf@ncar.ucar.edu, or visit the NCAR Graphics web page at ngwww.ucar.edu. NCAR Graphics is a registered trademark of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.

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