Sébastien Masson Sebastien.Masson_at_locean-ipsl.upmc.fr Françoise Pinsard Francoise.Pinsard_at_locean-ipsl.upmc.fr IDL SAXO 0.0 May 2006 First draft 0.1 August 2006 add introduction (previously in main.xml) $Id$ SAXO is a package (~400 routines, ~60 000 code lines) used to easily and quickly visualize and analyze models outputs or data observations. It is based on IDL and contains a Graphic User Interface. Developed in collaboration with LOCEAN researchers, it allows to explore four dimension data which may be gridded or irregularly spaced. It is particularly adapted to the "Arakawa C grid" discretization used in NEMO. In addition to graphical procedures, interpolation modules and other things …, it contains a set of programs dedicated to oceanographic diagnostics. SAXO needs at least IDL 6.0. SAXO can be used with the 7 minutes demo-mode (within the limitations of this mode: impossible to save data and create a file). idl-NetCDF written and maintained by Alan Iwi IDLdoc written and maintained by Mike Galloy color24, colorbar, getcolor, binary, different, inter, union, str_size and undefine written and maintained by David Fanning delchr, getfile, getwrd, isnumber, nwrds and putfile written and maintained by R. Sterner in JHU/APL/S1R IDL Library cmapply and cmset_op written and maintained by Craig Markwardt imdisp, saveimage and showimage written and maintained by Liam E. Gumley make_selection, strrepl, strright, strsci, strwhere and chkstru written and maintained by Martin Schultz image_viewer written and maintained by AEB??