for plotting surface and upper air maps, meteorograms,
sounding, hodographs, gridded data plots,
spatial and temporal vertical cross-sections,
contouring (both line and color-fill), vector
and streamline plots, vertical interpolations and animations.
Versatile objective analysis routines
for interpolating station based data to regular grids.
Pre-programmed diagnostic functions
for calculating derived fields from gridded data and station based data.
Standard mathematical functions
for creating your own diagnostics.
Diverse display capabilities
for supporting a wide range of maps and projections,
user defined line types and colors, contouring options,
labels, and parameters.
Satellite and NIDS image display
allows images to be viewed with data overlays from any GEMPAK
plotting program, color table enhancements, and animations.
Wide range of supported data sources
allow for incorporating data from heterogeneous sources including:
Realtime data feeds through the Unidata IDD; archived data
storage; research projects with unique data types; and
experimetal data sets.
Graphical User Interface applications
for animating and displaying data and graphics files.
Selectable Output device drivers
provide the user with the capability to produce
output displays for extensive applications.
