Re: Creating plots from gridded data (netcdf)

[Bob Odom]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2011, Mikey G wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I need to produce some plots from netcdf files.  The data is gridded
> (longitude and lattitude).  In this particular situation I do not need land
> masses masked (my lon/lat grid is over the open ocean), but I would like to
> do that in the future.  Specifically, I am trying to show average sea
> surface temperature over a region of open ocean.  I checked GNUplot's sample
> plots and didn't see any that looked like what I am used to seeing in
> published articles.  I'm relatively new to Octave still, so bear with me.
> My questions are:
>
> 1) Can Octave (GNUplot) produce nice plots of data in a lon/lat grid?
> 2) If so, how can I do it or where can I look for instruction/resources?
> Octave Manual didn't help, or I didn't see the clues...
> 3) Also, how would I overlay land masses if needed?
>
> I have the octcdf package installed and can already pull the data from my
> netcdf files.
>
> Thanks for your help!
> -Mike
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Mike,

If you can't get octave to work for you, there is a very good open source 
package called
GMT. It is specifically designed for making maps. Here is the link:

http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/

Bob Odom