Plot Plus is a general purpose scientific graphics package. Plot Plus will read most standard ASCII or binary files and the netCDF file format. Plot Plus is an interactive, command driven, scientific graphics package. It presently runs on most UNIX platforms and VAX/VMS systems.

Plot Plus is now being licensed at no cost. See Plot Plus Licensing Information. A compressed tar file (gzipped) containing pplus version 1.3.2 and supporting libraries is available at ftp.halcyon.com/pub/users/dwd/pplus1_3_2.tar.gz. The Plot Plus documentation in pdf format is also available via ftp at ftp://ftp.pmel.noaa.gov/epic/manual-dir/pplus.pdf. and the nccalc (netCDF calculator) documentation is available at ftp://ftp.pmel.noaa.gov/epic/manual-dir/nccalc.pdf.

Plot Plus Features

• Multiple output devices supported:
  • MultiView is a Java application that provides interactive graphical display
    of Plot Plus meta files. New!
  • X-windows
  • PostScript
  • GIF (m2gif application developed at NOAA/PMEL/EPIC)
  • MPEG animation files
  • hdf animation files
• Powerful and flexible scripting language
• Multiple input formats supported
  • ASCII
  • binary
  • netCDF
• Integrated with nccalc for netCDF reading, writing, and calculations
• MPEG animations generated using a modified version of the Berkeley MPEG-1 Software Encoder
• Data display options include:
  • x-y line plot
  • contour plot
  • color area fill
• Map projections supported:
  • Mercator
  • Polar Stereographic
  • Peters Projection
• Linear, Log, and Time axes
• Over 30 built in fonts
• Colored labels, plot lines, and contour lines

Links to Web sites that use Plot Plus

• NOAA/PMEL EPIC analysis programs:
  • CTD data
  • Time Series data
  • Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) data
• NOAA/PMEL TAO program
  • TAO real-time data display
  • TAO Display Software System
• Other Web Sites using EPIC/PPLUS
  • Realtime TRITON Buoy Data Display
  • JAMSTEC Realtime Data Display