Earth sciences graphics software is a plotting and image processing software used in atmospheric sciences, meteorology

Meteorology

Meteorology is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere. Studies in the field stretch back millennia, though significant progress in meteorology did not occur until the 18th century. The 19th century saw breakthroughs occur after observing networks developed across several countries...

, climatology, oceanography and other Earth science

Earth science

Earth science is an all-embracing term for the sciences related to the planet Earth. It is arguably a special case in planetary science, the Earth being the only known life-bearing planet. There are both reductionist and holistic approaches to Earth sciences...

 disciplines.

Earth sciences graphics software includes the capability to read specialized data formats such as netCDF

NetCDF

NetCDF is a set of software libraries and self-describing, machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented scientific data. The project homepage is hosted by the Unidata program at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research...

, HDR

HDR

HDR may refer to:* HDR, Inc., an American architectural and engineering firm* Hard disk recorder* Hevy Devy Records, a record label* High Dose Rate, a treatment technique in radiotherapy* High dynamic range imaging, digital imaging...

 and GRIB

GRIB

GRIB is a mathematically concise data format commonly used in meteorology to store historical and forecast weather data...

. Such software is sometimes able to access the data from remote data centers. Examples of applications include satellite data processing, analysis of output from complex meteorological models and display of time series of data. Graphics capabilities range from simple line plots, to complex three dimensional visualizations.

This type of graphics software is often used to display results from earth sciences numerical models.

External links

• http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/software.htmlList of many graphical packages which use NetCDF
  NetCDF
  NetCDF is a set of software libraries and self-describing, machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented scientific data. The project homepage is hosted by the Unidata program at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research...
  
  ] to provide a glimpse of graphical packages used in Earth Sciences.