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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="article" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="id2569324" id="id2569324"/>What is SAXO</h2></div><div><div class="authorgroup">
      <div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Sébastien</span> <span class="surname">Masson</span> <code class="email">&lt;<a href="mailto:Sebastien.Masson_at_locean-ipsl.upmc.fr">Sebastien.Masson_at_locean-ipsl.upmc.fr</a>&gt;</code></h3></div>
      <div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Françoise</span> <span class="surname">Pinsard</span> <code class="email">&lt;<a href="mailto:Francoise.Pinsard_at_locean-ipsl.upmc.fr">Francoise.Pinsard_at_locean-ipsl.upmc.fr</a>&gt;</code></h3></div>
    </div></div><div><span class="pubdate">svn Id of xml source file : $Id: whatissaxo.xml 345 2008-04-16 09:15:20Z pinsard $<br/><br/></span></div><div><div class="revhistory"><table border="1" width="100%" summary="Revision history"><tr><th align="left" valign="top" colspan="2"><b>Revision History</b></th></tr>
      <tr><td align="left">Revision 0.0</td><td align="left">May 2006</td></tr><tr><td align="left" colspan="2">First draft</td></tr>
      <tr><td align="left">Revision 0.1</td><td align="left">August 2006</td></tr><tr><td align="left" colspan="2">add introduction (previously in main.xml)</td></tr>
      <tr><td align="left">Revision 0.1</td><td align="left">April 2008</td></tr><tr><td align="left" colspan="2">migration from DocBook 4.2 to Docbook 5.0</td></tr>
    </table></div></div></div><hr/></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="#whatissaxo">1. What is SAXO</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="#prerequisites">2. Prerequisites</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="#include">3. Include</a></span></dt></dl></div>

  

<div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="whatissaxo" id="whatissaxo"/>1. What is SAXO</h2></div></div></div>

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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 <a href="http://www.ittvis.com/idl/" target="_top"><span class="trademark">IDL</span>™</a> and contains a Graphic User Interface.
Developed in collaboration with <a href="http://www.locean-ipsl.upmc.fr/" target="_top">LOCEAN</a> researchers, it allows to explore four dimension data which may be gridded or irregularly spaced.
It is particularly adapted to the “<span class="quote">Arakawa C grid</span>” discretization used in <a href="http://www.locean-ipsl.upmc.fr/NEMO/" target="_top">NEMO</a>.
In addition to graphical procedures, interpolation modules and other things 
, it contains a set of programs dedicated to oceanographic diagnostics.
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<div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="prerequisites" id="prerequisites"/>2. Prerequisites</h2></div></div></div>
  
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    <span class="application">SAXO</span> needs at least <a href="http://www.ittvis.com/idl/" target="_top"><span class="trademark">IDL</span>™</a> 6.0.
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  <div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3>
    <p><span class="application">SAXO</span> can be used with the 7 minutes demo-mode (within the limitations of this mode: impossible to save data and create a file).</p>
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<div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="include" id="include"/>3. Include</h2></div></div></div>
  
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        <span class="application">idl-NetCDF</span> written and maintained by Alan Iwi
        <a href="http://www.ittvis.com/codebank/search.asp?FID=261" target="_top">http://www.ittvis.com/codebank/search.asp?FID=261</a>
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        <span class="application">IDLdoc</span> written and maintained by Mike Galloy
        <a href="http://www.ittvis.com/codebank/search.asp?FID=100" target="_top">http://www.ittvis.com/codebank/search.asp?FID=100</a>
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        <span class="application">color24</span>, <span class="application">colorbar</span>, <span class="application">getcolor</span>, <span class="application">binary</span>, <span class="application">different</span>, <span class="application">inter</span>, <span class="application">union</span>, <span class="application">str_size</span> and <span class="application">undefine</span> written and maintained by David Fanning
        <a href="http://www.dfanning.com" target="_top">http://www.dfanning.com</a>
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        <span class="application">delchr</span>, <span class="application">getfile</span>, <span class="application">getwrd</span>, <span class="application">isnumber</span>, <span class="application">nwrds</span> and <span class="application">putfile</span> written and maintained by R. Sterner in JHU/APL/S1R IDL Library
        <a href="http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/s1r/idl/s1rlib/local_idl.html" target="_top">http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/s1r/idl/s1rlib/local_idl.html</a>
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        <span class="application">cmapply</span> and <span class="application">cmset_op</span> written and maintained by Craig Markwardt
        <a href="http://cow.physics.wisc.edu/~craigm/idl/" target="_top">http://cow.physics.wisc.edu/~craigm/idl/</a>
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        <span class="application">imdisp</span>, <span class="application">saveimage</span> and <span class="application">showimage</span> written and maintained by Liam E. Gumley
        <a href="http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/~gumley/" target="_top">http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/~gumley/</a>
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        <span class="application">make_selection</span>, <span class="application">strrepl</span>, <span class="application">strright</span>, <span class="application">strsci</span>, <span class="application">strwhere</span> and <span class="application">chkstru</span> written and maintained by Martin Schultz
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        <span class="application">image_viewer</span> written and maintained by AEB??
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