Check this out. GISS has published a NetCDF viewer which allows you to view files with a .nc extension. This is an essential tool for anyone interested in climate.
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/panoply/
Here is CRUTEM coverage for January, 1850 – a very warm month in the US.
Uncanny resemblance to 2012. Guess they had La Nina then too!!!
If you install it, all temperatures before 1950 are decreased by 10% in every nc file you open.
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I tried installing it -PanoplyWin64 on Windows 7 64bit – extracted all folders/files from the zip, installed the latest Java (also followed their instructions to use the Java utility to make sure java is installed (it reports: You have the recommended Java installed (Version 7 Update 5).) …… But when I run Panoply.exe it says no JVM could be found. … Any ideas?
You need the Java runtime environment JRE. Look for that at the Java web site.
Figured it out – the problem was using Chrome as a browser (32-bit) and the Java website automatically downloads the bit-version matching the browser — but Panoply needed the 64-bit, so had to dig down in the java website to get it.