Closed sdat2 closed 3 years ago
Ingrid Ingrid, by M. Benno Blumenthal benno@ldeo.columbia.edu, is designed to manipulate large datasets and model input/output. It can read data from its data catalog, a netCDF file, or a directly attached model, and output the data, either by feeding it to a model, creating a netCDF file, or creating plots and other representations of the data.
Ingrid has a number of filters which allow simple data manipulations, such as adding two datasets together, smoothing, averaging, and regridding to a new coordinate. In addition to netCDF, it also reads HDF, CDF, VOGL, and SGI GL.
Ingrid is currently running as a WWW daemon that can be accessed through http://rainbow.ldgo.columbia.edu/datacatalog.html to see some of its capabilities on a climate data catalog maintained by the Climate Group of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. To quote the introduction:
The Data Catalog is both a catalog and a library of datasets, i.e. it both helps you figure out which data you want, and helps you work with the data. The interface allows you to make plots, tables, and files from any dataset, its subsets, or processed versions thereof. This data server is designed to make data accessible to people using WWW clients (viewers) and to serve as a data resource for WWW documents. Since most documents cannot use raw data, the server is able to deliver the data in a variety of ways: as data files (netCDF and HDF), as tables (html), and in a variety of plots (line, contour, color, vector) and plot formats (PostScript and gif). Processing of the data, particularly averaging, can be requested as well.
The Data Viewer in particular demonstrates the power of the Ingrid daemon.
Ingrid currently runs on Linux, for which binaries are available. CVS access to the current source can be arranged.
fixed; probably a problem with encodings.
Error message: