1. Platform, price,
supplier/creator
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Unix, Linux
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N/A
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The
2. Applications
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The NCAR Command
Language is a free interpreted language designed specifically for scientific
data processing and visualization
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NCAR Graphics is
a Fortran and C based software package to draw contours, maps, vectors,
streamlines, weather maps, surfaces, histograms, X/Y plots, annotations, and
more for scientific visualization
3. Web Resources
o Official website: http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/overview.shtml , http://www.ncarg.ucar.edu/
o NCL documentation: http://ngwww.ucar.edu/ncl/documentation.html
o NCAR Graphics documentation: http://ngwww.ucar.edu/ng/documentation.html