Interactive Visualization at DKRZ

Postprocessing and 2D visualizations can be done using the interactive queue. For interactive 2D plotting in Python, R, and Julia, we provide a Jupyterhub server. We provide a wide range of Visualization Software on levante.

Visualization Software

Our visualization software is made available using modules and spack. The commands module avail and spack find provide you with list of all software modules that are available.

2D Data Analysis and Visualization

• Python

• NCL - NCAR Command Language

• PyNGL / PyNIO

• GrADS

• IDL (external documentation)

• GMT - Generic Mapping Tools (external documentation)

• Gnuplot (external documentation)

For other software that is installed on mistral such as further 2D visualization solutions please refer to our software list. Additionally to that, several 3D visualization solutions which require GPUs to run are available:

3D Visualization and Data Analysis

• Paraview

Image and video processing

• Composite animations using mogrify and ffmpeg

List of blog posts

• About data on curvilinear or rotated regional grids