Ncview Installations on Tetralith & Sigma

Ncview is a visual browser for netCDF format files. Typically you would use ncview to get a quick and easy, push-button look at your netCDF files.

Installations on NSC systems

Tetralith and Sigma

Ncview is available via the module system on Tetralith and Sigma. For more information about available versions, please see the Tetralith and Sigma Software list.

How to run

Load the ncview module corresponding to the version you want to use, e.g

module load ncview/2.1.7-nsc1

This will add the ncview application to your search path.

To run ncview interactively, allocate a compute node for interactive use and then run “ncview”. E.g

interactive -N1 --exclusive -t 00:30:00
module load ncview/2.1.7-nsc1
ncview ifile.nc

When running the ncview GUI, NSC recommends using ThinLinc to access Tetralith.

For more information on how to use ThinLinc, please see: Running graphical applications using ThinLinc