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The NCAR Command Language (NCL) is a scripting language for the analysis and visualization of climate and weather data.

https://github.com/NCAR/ncl

Science Score: 57.0%

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Repository

The NCAR Command Language (NCL) is a scripting language for the analysis and visualization of climate and weather data.

Basic Info
  • Host: GitHub
  • Owner: NCAR
  • License: other
  • Language: C
  • Default Branch: develop
  • Homepage: http://www.ncl.ucar.edu
  • Size: 79 MB
Statistics
  • Stars: 274
  • Watchers: 35
  • Forks: 73
  • Open Issues: 136
  • Releases: 0
Created over 9 years ago · Last pushed 7 months ago
Metadata Files
Readme Contributing License Code of conduct

README.md

NCAR Command Language

[!WARNING] NCL was placed in maintenance mode as of 2019. You can find more details in the most recent announcement here.

This is the source code for the NCAR Command Language (NCL).

NCL is a scripting language for the analysis and visualization of climate and weather data.

  • Supports NetCDF, GRIB, HDF, HDF-EOS, and shapefile data formats
  • Has hundreds of built-in computational routines
  • Produces high-quality graphics

NCL is developed by the Computational and Information Systems Lab at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Important announcement on the future of NCL

NCAR has made the decision to adopt Python as the scripting language platform of choice for future development of analysis and visualization tools. Please read this open letter to NCL users to understand what kind of impact this will have on the future of NCL.

Installation

The current version of NCL is 6.6.2, which can be installed via conda.

conda create -n ncl_stable -c conda-forge ncl source activate ncl_stable

Documentation and support

Visit the NCL website for documentation, examples, support, and installation.

NCL source code tree

The top level NCL source code tree contains the following directories and files:

| Directory | Purpose | | :-------------- | :------- | | common/ | Low-level library and fonts required by NCAR Graphics and NCL | | config/ | Configuration files for installation | | external/ | External libraries required by NCL | | install/ | Auxiliary files for installation | | ncarg2d/ | NCAR Graphics and GKS libraries and examples | | ncarview/ | NCGM-based applications and raster utilities | | ngmath/ | Interpolation libraries for 1D, 2D, and 3D data | | ni/ | NCL interpreter, HLU library, examples, color tables, GRIB2 code tables | | Files | Purpose | | CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md | Code of Conduct for NCL user community | | CONTRIBUTING.md | How to contribute to the NCL Project | | Configure | Configuration script for installation | | LICENSE | Apache 2.0 License | | README.md | Information about NCL | | version | version file | | yMakefile | Top level makefile |

Bug reports and feature requests

Use the GitHub issue tracker to submit a bug or request a feature.

Citing NCL

Cite NCL using the following text:

<> The NCAR Command Language (Version 6.6.2) [Software]. (2019). Boulder, Colorado: UCAR/NCAR/CISL/TDD. http://dx.doi.org/10.5065/D6WD3XH5

Update the NCL version and year as appropriate.

Owner

  • Name: NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
  • Login: NCAR
  • Kind: organization
  • Location: Boulder, CO

NSF NCAR is sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation and managed by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.

GitHub Events

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  • Issues event: 4
  • Watch event: 12
  • Delete event: 1
  • Issue comment event: 19
  • Push event: 4
  • Pull request review event: 3
  • Pull request event: 8
  • Fork event: 6
  • Create event: 4
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  • Issues event: 4
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  • Issue comment event: 19
  • Push event: 4
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  • Fork event: 6
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Committers

Last synced: 7 months ago

All Time
  • Total Commits: 14,116
  • Total Committers: 43
  • Avg Commits per committer: 328.279
  • Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.531
Past Year
  • Commits: 8
  • Committers: 2
  • Avg Commits per committer: 4.0
  • Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.125
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Issues and Pull Requests

Last synced: 6 months ago

All Time
  • Total issues: 186
  • Total pull requests: 44
  • Average time to close issues: 3 months
  • Average time to close pull requests: 3 months
  • Total issue authors: 111
  • Total pull request authors: 14
  • Average comments per issue: 1.74
  • Average comments per pull request: 0.77
  • Merged pull requests: 32
  • Bot issues: 0
  • Bot pull requests: 2
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  • Pull requests: 9
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  • Average time to close pull requests: 4 days
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