Panoply version 2.0 has been released (8/1/2006). This is a Java application which enables the user to plot raster images of geo-gridded data from netCDF datasets. Depending on the data, it can draw global longitude-latitude images or pole-to-pole latitude-vertical images.
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/panoply/
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