AViewer - simple viewer for GISS Model E lat-lon output filesAViewer is a simple viewer for latitude-longitude data files produced as a result of post-processing of GISS GCM output (typically the files *.ij<run_id> created by runnung pdE run_id acc_files). It supports most of model E resolutions and works with both "GISS ij" and NetCDF output. AViewer allows you to open file with lat-lon data (which we usually call IJ files), choose fields you want to plot and plot them as colored maps in a picture window. You can plot up to 8 maps in the picture window. For each map you can change the title and the minimum and maximum of the color scale. You can also subtract fields one from another. "Print" menu button allows you to send the contents of a picture window to a printer or save it to a file (a postscript file on Unix systems). AViewer currently works on following platforms: Linux desktops and clusters, SGI, MAC OS and Windows XP. Here is a typical view of AViewer main window:  AViewer on GISS and GSFC machines AViewer is currently installed and is working on "discover", "palm" and "athena". The executable is located in usual .../giss/exec directories. Make sure that those are included in your PATH. Don't try to print pictures on GSFC computers :-). Rather print picture to a file and transport it to a local computer with printer support. You may also want to add "-C" flad when you start your ssh session with GSFC computers. This enables compression of the data passed through ssh connection and may accelerate programs that pass a lot of graphics. This directory contains pre-compiled AViewer binaries for i386 and x86_64 architectures. You also need Qt3 run-time libraries (typically installed by default) to be present on your computer. This directory contains pre-compiled AViewer binary for MAC OS (powerpc CPU). It runs under X11, so you have to start it from X11 window. It Also requires Qt3 run-time libraries. If Qt3 is not installed on your computer you can do it with
fink install qt3
Keep in mind that insatllation will take some time since fink will have to compile entire Qt toolkit. This directory contains pre-compiled AViewer binary for MAC OS (Intel CPU). All the above applies to Intel architecture, i.e. you need X11 and qt3 to run AViewer. This directory contains pre-compiled AViewer binary for Windows XP. It also contains dll libraries needed to run this program (if you don't have Qt installed on your PC). To install AViewer create a new folder and copy the contents of the above directory there. Make a shortcut from your desktop to AViewer.exe and you are ready to go. Just click on AViewer icon.
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