Fred, There's always GrADS. It's free, and pretty easy to learn, and can do the vector thing (I think; not my area, really). The main URL is: http://grads.iges.org/head.html The URL that describes the netCDF interface is: http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/~hoop/grads.html I hope this helps. -Hoop
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