-Software and documentation

                                                                                
                                     
                                                      
  The Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies provides GrADS (Grid Analysis    
and Display System) software and documentation.  GrADS is an interactive        
desktop tool for the analysis and display of earth science data.                
                                                                                
                                                     
  Information from the National Weather Service Telecommunication Gateway       
(NWSTG) of the National Weather Service (NWS), Systems Operations Center,       
about changes to data formats and transmissions information that has not        
yet been published in standard source documents, such as NWS manuals, WMO       
manuals, or other documents or announcements.                                   
                                                                                
                                 
  A collection of scientific software written by Warren Wiscombe.  Mostly       
atmospheric radiation-related:  Mie code, discrete ordinates radiative          
transfer code, atmospheric thermodynamics code, and other programs.             
                                                                                
                       
  Steve Baum's collection of information about, and links to, software          
for graphical presentation and numerical analysis of oceanographical            
and meteorological data.                                                        
                                                                                
                                             
  The Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks archives   
various radiative transfer and other software.  The program uvspec, which       
calculates diffuse and direct uv and visible fluxes (radiance) and intensities  
(irradiance) at any altitude, is in .   
 contains a general n-stream          
radiative transport equation solver.                                            
                                                                                
                                               
  Unidata Program Center.  Decoders for for SAO, METAR, RAOBs;  WXP;            
NetCDF;  units converter; and other software available.                         
                                                                                
                                
                                        
  Various software and utilities, including Skew T log P charting software,     
GRIB decode software, grid interpolation codes, US standard atmosphere          
calculation.                                                                    
                                                                                
                                                
  This FTP site at Florida State University is a repository for public domain   
software and shareware that is useful to atmospheric scientists.                
                                                                                
                          
  WeatherNet software archive.  Many popular weather related shareware          
and freeware programs, including WeatherGraphix, HurrTrk, RAOB, WxView,         
Sharp, WinWeather, Blue-Skies.                                                  
                                                                                
                                                   
  Code for the NCAR/CGD Community Climate Model.                                
                                                                                
                               
  wxgrfx41a.zip (shareware version of WeatherGraphix 4.1a, a weather plotting   
and analysis program) and hurricane tracking software.                          
                                                                                
              
  Various weather software for Mac and PC.                                      
                                                                                
                                  
  Humidity-wind chill-heat index program, sunrise calculation program           
                                                                                
                     
  Radiosonde (TTAA, etc) decode program in perl/java                            
                                                                                
                  
  Javascript atmospheric variable calculator                                    
                                                                                
                                              
   Interactive Radar Analysis Software (IRAS) package home page. IRAS is a      
free X-Windows based software tool which is used to display weather             
radar data.                                                                     
                                                                                
                                  
  Scientific visualization software, Vis5D and VisAD.                           
                                                                                
                               
  GRIB decode in C                                                              
                                                                                
                                   
  GRIB decode in Fortran                                                        
                                                                                
                                          
  BUFR decode in Fortran (various files for different platforms)                
                                                                                
                   
  Program to decode SYNOP and RTTY Meteo AAXX/BBXX codes, for PCs.              
                                                                                
                                       
  Information on METAR and WMO codes                                            
                                                                                
                                   
  LaTex Style file for JAS                                                      
                                                                                
                                   
                                          
  LaTex style sheet for the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological       
Society.                                                                        
                                                                                
                  
  The FAQ for the Usenet newsgroup sci.data.formats.  Includes pointers         
to format descriptions and software for various data formats, including         
several which are frequently used in the atmospheric sciences:  CDF,            
netCDF, HDF, GRIB.  Also pointers to scientific visualization software.