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Python power-up: new image tool visualizes complex data

The image viewing and analysis software napari has filled a gap in the programming language’s scientific ecosystem.
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Cartoon of two eyes which repeat upwards with different visualisations instead of pupils.

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Josh Dorrington has become adept at viewing the jet streams. He plots fast-moving rivers of air at different atmospheric altitudes and positions the charts side by side. “You get pretty good at looking at all these cross-sections and working out what it implies,” says Dorrington, an atmospheric physicist at the University of Oxford, UK. But compared with computerized visualizations, this ‘manual’ method is slower and “it’s not as interactive”.

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Nature 600, 347-348 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03628-7

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