Introduction to ActiveGEM a civilized interface for the GEMPAK family of programs.

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Introduction to ActiveGEM a civilized interface for the GEMPAK family of programs

Transcript of Introduction to ActiveGEM a civilized interface for the GEMPAK family of programs.

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Introduction to ActiveGEM

a civilized interface for the GEMPAK

family of programs

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Outline● Initializing the interface and basic commands– Moving around the main window– Loading a data file– Making a plan plot – scalar or vector

● Superposition and overlay modes– Multiple fields (superposition)– Multiple panels (overlay)

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Outline (cont'd)● Additional plot types

– Creating cross section plots– Creating profiles

● Advanced commands– Save/Load your settings– Export scripts– Multiple-time plotting

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Background of ActiveGEM

● Open source software developed under the GNU General Public Licence

● Beta-version software – under continued development

● Project hosted by http://SourceForge.net

● USERS play an important role in debugging (developing?) the software

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Background (cont'd)

● Project @ http://activegem.sourceforge.net

● Doing your part: submit bug reports, support and feature requests to the appropriate list on http://sourceforge.net/projects/activegem

● Developers welcome !!!