National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration
United States Department of Commerce

Ferret User's Guide

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Index

Chapter 1. Introduction

1.1 OVERVIEW

1.2 GETTING STARTED

1.3 COMMON COMMANDS

1.4 COMMAND SYNTAX

1.5 GO FILES

1.6 SAMPLE DATA SETS

1.7 UNIX TOOLS

1.8 HELP

 

Chapter 2. Data Set Basics

2.1 OVERVIEW

2.2 NETCDF DATA

2.3 TMAP-FORMATTED DATA

2.4 BINARY DATA

2.5 ASCII DATA

2.6 TRICKS TO READING BINARY AND ASCII FILES

2.7 ACCESS TO REMOTE DATA SETS WITH DODS

2.8 DISCRETE SAMPLING GEOMETRIES DATASETS

 

Chapter 3. Variables & Expressions

3.1 VARIABLES

3.2 EXPRESSIONS

3.3 EMBEDDED EXPRESSIONS

3.4 DEFINING NEW VARIABLES

3.5 DEBUGGING COMPLEX HIERARCHIES OF EXPRESSIONS

 

Chapter 4. Grids & Regions

4.1 OVERVIEW

4.2 GRIDS

4.3 REGIONS

4.4 FERRET PROGRAM LIMITS

 

Chapter 5. Animations & Gif Images

5.1 OVERVIEW

5.2 CREATING AN HDF MOVIE

5.3 DISPLAYING AN HDF MOVIE

5.4 ADVANCED MOVIE-MAKING

5.5 CREATING GIF IMAGES

 

Chapter 6. Customizing Plots

6.1 OVERVIEW

6.2 GRAPHICAL OUTPUT

6.3 AXES

6.4 LABELS

6.5 COLOR

6.6 FONTS

6.7 PLOT LAYOUT

6.8 CONTOURING

6.9 SPECIAL SYMBOLS

6.10 MAP PROJECTIONS AND CURVILINEAR COORDINATES

 

Chapter 7. Handing String Data Symbols

7.1 STRING VARIABLES

7.2 STRING FUNCTIONS

7.3 SYMBOL COMMANDS

7.4 AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED SYMBOLS

7.5 USE WITH EMBEDDED EXPRESSIONS

7.6 ORDER OF STRING SUBSTITUTIONS

7.7 CUSTOMIZING THE POSITION AND STYLE OF PLOT LABELS

7.8 USING SYMBOLS IN COMMAND FILES

7.9 PLOT+ STRING EDITING TOOLS

7.10 SYMBOL EDITING

7.11 SPECIAL SYMBOLS

 

Chapter 8. Working with Special Data Sets

8.1 WHAT IS NON-GRIDDED DATA?

8.2 POINT DATA

8.3 VERTICAL PROFILES

8.4 COLLECTIONS OF TIME SERIES

8.5 COLLECTIONS OF 2-DIMENSIONAL GRIDS

8.6 LAGRANGIAN DATA

8.7 SIGMA COORDINATE DATA

8.8 CURVILINEAR COORDINATE DATA

8.9 POLYGONAL DATA

 

Chapter 9. Computing Environment

9.1 SETTING UP TO RUN FERRET

9.2 FILES AND ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES USED BY FERRET

9.3 MEMORY USE

9.4 HARD COPY AND METAFILE TRANSLATION

9.5 OUTPUT FILE NAMING

9.6 INPUT FILE NAMING

 

Chapter 10. Converting to NetCDF

10.1 OVERVIEW

10.2 SIMPLE CONVERSIONS USING FERRET

10.3 WRITING A CONVERSION PROGRAM

10.4 CREATING A MULTI-FILE NETCDF DATA SET

 

Chapter 11. Writing External Functions

11.1 OVERVIEW

11.2 GETTING STARTED

11.3 QUICK START EXAMPLE

11.4 ANATOMY OF AN EXTERNAL FUNCTION

11.5 NOTES AND SUGGESTIONS

11.6 UTILITY FUNCTIONS

 

Command Reference

 

GLOSSARY

 

Appendix A: External Functions

     

    Appendix B: PPLUS Guide

    INTRODUCTION

    GETTING STARTED

    COMMAND FORMAT

    COMMAND SYNOPSIS

    BEGINNERS GUIDE

    ROUTING PLOT FILES

    PPLUS COMMAND FILES

    PLOT5, PPLUS DIFFERENCES

    COMMAND DESCRIPTION

    FONT TABLES

     

    Appendix C: Ferret-Specific PPLUS Enhancements

    PLOTPLUS HISTORY, EVOLUTION

    ENHANCED COMMANDS DESCRIPTION

    GKS LINE BUNDLES

    HARD COPY