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= What is SAXO =
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== What is SAXO ==

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 [http://www.ittvis.com/idl/ IDL] and contains a Graphic User Interface.
Developed in collaboration with [http://www.locean-ipsl.upmc.fr/ LOCEAN] researchers, it allows to explore four dimension data which may be gridded or irregularly spaced.
It is particularly adapted to the "Arakawa C grid" discretization used in [http://www.locean-ipsl.upmc.fr/NEMO/ NEMO].
In addition to graphical procedures, interpolation modules and other things 
, it contains a set of programs dedicated to oceanographic diagnostics.

== Prerequisites ==
SAXO needs at least [http://www.ittvis.com/idl/ IDL] 6.0.
  

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    SAXO can be used with the 7 minutes demo-mode (within the limitations of this mode: impossible to save data and create a file).
  
== Include ==

 * idl-NetCDF written and maintained by Alan Iwi
[http://www.ittvis.com/codebank/search.asp?FID=261 ]
 * IDLdoc written and maintained by Mike Galloy
[http://www.ittvis.com/codebank/search.asp?FID=100 ]
 * color24, colorbar, getcolor, binary, different, inter, union, str_size and undefine written and maintained by David Fanning
[http://www.dfanning.com ]
 * delchr, getfile, getwrd, isnumber, nwrds and putfile written and maintained by R. Sterner in JHU/APL/S1R IDL Library
[http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/s1r/idl/s1rlib/local_idl.html ]
 * cmapply and cmset_op written and maintained by Craig Markwardt
[http://cow.physics.wisc.edu/~craigm/idl/ ]
 * imdisp, saveimage and showimage written and maintained by Liam E. Gumley
[http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/~gumley/ ]
 * make_selection, strrepl, strright, strsci, strwhere and chkstru written and maintained by Martin Schultz
      
 * image_viewer written and maintained by AEB??