Show synop

Purpose

show_synop is a SolarSoftware IDL widget that incorporates searching the Virtual Solar Observatory (VSO), pre-processing, and displaying capabilities into one graphical user interface (GUI). Also see RHESSI Nugget N° 131 Cloudy SolarSoftware.

Requirements

• Up-to-date SSW gen tree, installation and download instructions
• If using remote pre-processing capabilities
  • IDL 6.4 or later
  • Sun Java 1.5

Description

; Routine syntax
[p]show_synop[/p], plotman=plotman

The plotman keyword is optional.

Keyword	Description	Example
plotman	This keyword allows sharing or reusing plotman (e.g. between an active plotman window and show_synop)	p=[f]plotman[/f](/nopanel) & [p]show_synop[/p], plotman=p

1. Done closes show_synop, GOES Workbench opens a separate widget that allows for GOES data visualization (see XXX), and Configure shows the show_synop configuration options (see XXX).