Useful Links

The visualisation and analysis of the data produced during this project would have been very difficult to realise without the help of open source software. What follows is a brief list of links to software used for this project.

dia - a drawing program dia is a nice graphing program which I used to draw the flow diagrams. It is very easy to use.
GMT - The Generic Mapping Tools Most excellent set of programs for scientific data visualisation. The individual programs are tied together with the scripting language of choice. GMT produces postscript output.
ImageMagick ImageMagick is a collection of tools and libraries for manipulating images/links. I mainly used it to convert between formats.
LaTeX The thesis was typeset with the LaTeX system. Text, equations, etc are written in a markup language which is then transformed to various outputs like pdf or postscript. It just works!	$LaTeX logo$
MPI - the message passing interface library used for parallelising the ice sheet model
netCDF netCDF is a programming library for scientific data I/O. It is platform and operating system independent and allows programs written in a variety of languages (such as C, C++, Fortran, Python) access multidimensional data.	netCDF
ncview ncview is a netCDF file viewer. It is an excellent little tool to get a quick view of the variables contained within a netCDF file
OpenDX OpenDX used to be IBM's visualization data explorer, a 3D visualisation system. OpenDX comes with it's own visual programming environment and is relatively easy to use. I've used it for all the 3D images/links and vector plots.
Python Python is an object-oriented scripting language. Many of the data analysis programs are written in Python. I also used Python to write GMT scripts.
R R is the open source project for statistical computing. R is similar to the languages S and SPLUS. The AVAS analysis was done using R.
etopo5 etopo5 is a publicly available global digital terrain model. It includes both bathymetry and topography. etopo5 has a resolution of 5 arc minutes
gtopo30 gtopo30 is a publicly available global digital terrain model. It has a resolution of 30 arc seconds. However, it does not include bathymetry.