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NCL Quicklook : An easy data visualization tool


It is a simple tool to have an easy visualization of atmospheric data. Which shows the output in X11 window with single command. Quicklook comes as a part of NCL version 6.4 onwards.

Requirements
Installation can be done by installing ncl using conda 

    
conda create -n ncl_stable -c conda-forge ncl
 this will create a conda enivronment. We need to activate the envrionment we created
by entering the following command  
 
source activate ncl_stable
Conda environment for ncl is ready by now. Then you can go to your working directory 
where you have the data, then run ncl_quicklook command,

ncl_quicklook data.nc


More options are available:
ncl_quicklook -v var  -t  time_index   -lev level  -pltype  plot_type  -o 
output_format   -cmap  color_map   -region  sub-region  -cont  cmin,cmax,cint
 -animate  -gif  -addCyclic  logical    -savescript   input-file
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