The PDL module gives standard perl the ability to COMPACTLY store and SPEEDILY manipulate the large N-dimensional data sets that are the bread and butter of scientific computing.
The fst2v5d package converts data stored in the Canadian RPN Standard File (FST) format into Vis5D format. FST files, commonly used to store meteorological data, are scanned by fst2v5d to generate both 4D fields and independent topography input files.