11/9-10/06:

This work was done with bluevista and tempest in:

/hao/tgcm/timegcm1.2_jan05 and
/hao/tgcm/timegcm1.2_sep05

See also http://download.hao.ucar.edu/pub/foster/timegcm1.2_jan05 and
         http://download.hao.ucar.edu/pub/foster/timegcm1.2_sep05

These animations were used in a "Sun-Earth Connection Virtual Conference"
Nov 13-17, 2006. See http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/storms/storms.html

The procedure to make these animations was as follows:

1. Use getmss-ncks to bring up mss history files (msrcp), and
   save new netcdf files with only desired fields (t,u,v,ne,z in this case).
   Note bluevista was better at this than tempest.

   The original timegcm1.2 amie history files are on mss:
   /GANGLU/timegcm1.2/s_jan05_all_xxx.nc and
   /GANGLU/timegcm1.2/s_sep05_all_xxx.nc

2. Use ncrcat.csh to concatenate new netcdf files from above into one
   file per day (original and reduced files contain 10-minute histories).

3. Read the 1-day netcdf history files from step 2 above with tgcmproc_idl
   (on tempest). Use tgcmproc_idl to generate series of png files. In this
   case animations were made of Ne and t(u,v) at satellite view projection.
   For 1 day at 10-min interval, 145 frames are produced (numbered 0-144).

4. Use Image Magick to combine the png files to a single gif file:
   convert *.png file.gif. If put on the web, this gif file can be viewed
   as an animation by firefox or other browser.

5. The idl script animatepng.pro (copy in this dir) can be used in an idl
   session to make an idl animation widget from the png file series.

6. I also a tar files of each png series, so it can be downloaded and
   extracted for reading by animatepng.pro.