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FERRET

Description

FERRET is an interactive visualization and analysis environment designed to meet the needs of oceanographers and meteorologists analyzing large, complex gridded data sets. FERRET can be used to analyze multi-gigabyte data sets containing mixed 3 and 4-dimensional variables on staggered grids.

Location

FERRET is available on all ARSC Linux workstations and HPC systems, in the following location:

/usr/local/pkg/ferret/current

Usage

Several environment variables are required for FERRET to run properly. The ferret module needs to be loaded to ensure all environment variables are set correctly. To load the ferret module, and then run FERRET, use the following commands:

   > module load ferret
   > ferret

A tutorial is available by executing the command GO tutorial at the ferret command prompt.

Features

Mathematica-like flexibility
geophysical formatting
calculations can be applied over arbitrary regions
memory management for large calculations
symmetrical processing in four data dimensions
extensive documentation and mailing list support

More Information

Online Help: Text and Postscript documentation files are available in the directory: /usr/local/pkg/ferret/current/doc
WWW Site: FERRET web site, http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/Ferret, has extensive documentation, a FAQ list, and additional links.
FERRET Mailing List: Send mail to with 'subscribe ferret_users' as the first line in the message body.
Contact: User Support
Developer Information

Thermal Modeling and Analysis Project
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
NOAA
7600 Sand Point Way NE
Seattle, WA 98115
E-mail:
WWW: http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/Ferret

Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
PO Box 756020, Fairbanks, AK 99775 | voice: 907-450-8600 | email: