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<title>What is SAXO</title>
  <articleinfo>
    <authorgroup>
      <author><firstname>Sébastien</firstname> <surname>Masson</surname> <email>Sebastien.Masson_at_locean-ipsl.upmc.fr</email></author>
      <author><firstname>Françoise</firstname> <surname>Pinsard</surname> <email>Francoise.Pinsard_at_locean-ipsl.upmc.fr</email></author>
    </authorgroup>
    <keywordset>
      <keyword>IDL</keyword>
      <keyword>SAXO</keyword>
    </keywordset>
    <revhistory>
      <revision>
        <revnumber>0.0</revnumber>
        <date>May 2006</date>
        <revremark>First draft</revremark>
      </revision>
      <revision>
        <revnumber>0.1</revnumber>
        <date>August 2006</date>
        <revremark>add introduction (previously in main.xml)</revremark>
      </revision>
    </revhistory>
    <pubdate>$Id$</pubdate>
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<sect1 id="whatissaxo">
<title>What is SAXO</title>
<para id="whatissaxo_for_main">
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 <ulink url="http://www.ittvis.com/idl/"><trademark>IDL</trademark></ulink> and contains a Graphic User Interface.
Developed in collaboration with <ulink url="http://www.lodyc.jussieu.fr/">LOCEAN</ulink> 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 <ulink url="http://www.lodyc.jussieu.fr/NEMO/">NEMO</ulink>.
In addition to graphical procedures, interpolation modules and other things &hellip;, it contains a set of programs dedicated to oceanographic diagnostics.
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<sect1 id="prerequisites">
  <title>Prerequisites</title>
  <para>
    <application>SAXO</application> needs at least <ulink url="http://www.ittvis.com/idl/"><trademark>IDL</trademark></ulink> 6.0.
  </para>
  <para>
    <remark><application>SAXO</application> can be used with the 7 minutes demo-mode (within the limitations of this mode: impossible to save data and create a file).</remark>
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<sect1 id="include">
  <title>Include</title>
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      <listitem><simpara>
        <application>idl-NetCDF</application> written and maintained by Alan Iwi
        <ulink url="http://www.ittvis.com/codebank/search.asp?FID=261"/>
      </simpara></listitem>
      <listitem><simpara>
        <application>IDLdoc</application> written and maintained by Mike Galloy
        <ulink url="http://www.ittvis.com/codebank/search.asp?FID=100"/>
      </simpara></listitem>
      <listitem><simpara>
        <application>color24</application>, <application>colorbar</application>, <application>getcolor</application>, <application>binary</application>, <application>different</application>, <application>inter</application>, <application>union</application>, <application>str_size</application> and <application>undefine</application> written and maintained by David Fanning
        <ulink url="http://www.dfanning.com"/>
      </simpara></listitem>
      <listitem><simpara>
        <application>delchr</application>, <application>getfile</application>, <application>getwrd</application>, <application>isnumber</application>, <application>nwrds</application> and <application>putfile</application> written and maintained by R. Sterner in JHU/APL/S1R IDL Library
        <ulink url="http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/s1r/idl/s1rlib/local_idl.html"/>
      </simpara></listitem>
      <listitem><simpara>
        <application>cmapply</application> and <application>cmset_op</application> written and maintained by Craig Markwardt
        <ulink url="http://cow.physics.wisc.edu/~craigm/idl"/>
      </simpara></listitem>
      <listitem><simpara>
        <application>imdisp</application>, <application>saveimage</application> and <application>showimage</application> written and maintained by Liam E. Gumley
        <ulink url="http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/~gumley/"/>
      </simpara></listitem>
      <listitem><simpara>
        <application>make_selection</application>, <application>strrepl</application>, <application>strright</application>, <application>strsci</application>, <application>strwhere</application> and <application>chkstru</application> written and maintained by Martin Schultz
      </simpara></listitem>
      <listitem><simpara>
        <application>image_viewer</application> written and maintained by AEB??
      </simpara></listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
   </para>
</sect1>
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