Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) earth science/paleoclimate/software STUDY NOTES: An interactive desktop software tool that is used for access, manipulation, and visualization of earth science data. It has two data models for handling gridded and station data, and supports many data file formats, including binary (stream or sequential), GRIB (version 1 and 2), NetCDF, HDF (version 4 and 5), and BUFR (for station data). It uses a 5-Dimensional data environment: the four conventional dimensions (longitude, latitude, vertical level, and time) plus an optional 5th dimension for grids that is generally implemented but designed to be used for ensembles. DISCIPLINE KEYWORDS: Climatology and Atmospheric, Climatology, Paleoclimatology, Paleoenvironment. This resource description was produced with support from the NSF project entitled "EarthCube RCN: C4P: Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences," (NSF ICER-1340301) under the direction of Kerstin A. Lehnert, Mark Uhen, John W. Williams, Christopher J. Jenkins NCDC-Paleoclimatology https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data - Bauer Bruce 2014-07-24 ONLINE Files online, ASCII http://www.iges.org/grads/ http://www.iges.org/grads/ http://www.iges.org/grads/ English http://www.iges.org/grads/ http://www.iges.org/grads/