NCL
Expert in NCL — NCAR Command Language — for processing and visualising scientific Fortran output.
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NCL — the NCAR Command Language — is the scripting language we use to drive image generation from scientific Fortran codes. It is the standard tool for turning numerical output (wave fields, atmospheric grids, sea-state results) into the charts and rendered images downstream consumers rely on. NCL is no longer actively developed by NCAR, which makes expert support for existing NCL pipelines especially valuable.
Where we add value
- Writing and maintaining NCL scripts that turn Fortran numerical output — including WRF and WII — into production-quality visuals.
- Keeping legacy NCL pipelines working now that NCL itself is end-of-life: pinning compatible versions, packaging dependencies, and documenting the build.
- Integrating NCL into the build, run, and reporting pipeline so visuals are produced automatically rather than by hand.
- Reproducible imaging — same input data, same script, same image, every time, including months later.
- Recovering and re-running historic NCL scripts against archived data when somebody needs a regenerated chart from years ago — see Expertise → Legacy data.
- Migrating NCL outputs to modern delivery surfaces (web, REST, dashboards) — see Examples → REST API.