These packages are for the most part written and supported by us, but
there are some exceptions. They provide extensions of GMT that are
needed for particular rather than general applications.
Questions or bug reports for this software
should be addressed to the person(s) listed in the README file associated with
the particular program. It is not guaranteed that these programs are
fully ANSI-C, Y2K, or POSIX compliant, or that they necessarily will
install smoothly on all platforms, but most do. Note that the data sets
some of these programs work on are not distributed with these packages;
they must be obtained separately. The contents of the supplemental
archive may change without notice; at this writing it contains these directories:
This package contains :doc:`gshhg </supplements/gshhg/gshhg>` which you can use to extract shoreline polygons from the Global Self-consistent Hierarchical High-resolution Shorelines (GSHHG) available separately from or the (GSHHG is the polygon data base from which the GMT coastlines derive). The package is maintained by Paul Wessel.
This package contains three modules and five bash scripts used to model the vertical gravity gradient signal across oceanic fracture zones. The various tools allow modeling of the signal as a blend of the typical "Atlantic"-FZ and "Pacific-FZ" shapes, modeled by Gaussian-derived building blocks [29]. The package is maintained by Paul Wessel.
This package consists of the program :doc:`img2grd </supplements/img/img2grd>` to extract subsets of the global gravity and predicted topography solutions derived from satellite altimetry [23]. The package is maintained by Walter Smith and Paul Wessel.
This package contains the programs :doc:`earthtide </supplements/geodesy/earthtide>` for computing solid Earth tides, :doc:`gpsgridder </supplements/geodesy/gpsgridder>` for gridding GPS velocity components, and :doc:`velo </supplements/geodesy/velo>` for plotting error ellipses, velocity arrows, and rotational wedges. The velo program was developed by Kurt Feigl and Genevieve Patau and is now maintained by the GMT team. The earthtide program is a translation to C of a program written by Dennis Milbert and distributed with his permission.
This package currently holds the programs :doc:`mgd77convert </supplements/mgd77/mgd77convert>`, :doc:`mgd77header </supplements/mgd77/mgd77header>`, :doc:`mgd77info </supplements/mgd77/mgd77info>`, :doc:`mgd77list </supplements/mgd77/mgd77list>`, :doc:`mgd77magref </supplements/mgd77/mgd77magref>`, :doc:`mgd77manage </supplements/mgd77/mgd77manage>`, :doc:`mgd77path </supplements/mgd77/mgd77path>`, :doc:`mgd77sniffer </supplements/mgd77/mgd77sniffer>`, and :doc:`mgd77track </supplements/mgd77/mgd77track>` which can be used to extract information or data values from or plot marine geophysical data files in the ASCII MGD77 or netCDF MGD77+ formats [24]). This package has replaced the old mgg package. The package is maintained by Paul Wessel and Mike Chandler.
At the moment, this package contains the programs :doc:`gravfft </supplements/potential/gravfft>`, which performs gravity, isostasy, and admittance calculation for grids, :doc:`flexure </supplements/potential/gmtflexure>` and :doc:`grdflexure </supplements/potential/grdflexure>` which calculates flexural deformation for profiles and grids, respectively, :doc:`grdredpol </supplements/potential/grdredpol>`, which compute the continuous reduction to the pole, AKA differential RTP for magnetic data, :doc:`grdseamount </supplements/potential/grdseamount>`, which computes synthetic bathymetry over various seamount shapes, and :doc:`gravmag3d </supplements/potential/gmtgravmag3d>` and :doc:`grdgravmag3d </supplements/potential/grdgravmag3d>`, which computes the gravity or magnetic anomaly of a body by the method of Okabe [25], and :doc:`talwani2d </supplements/potential/talwani2d>` and :doc:`talwani3d </supplements/potential/talwani3d>` and which uses the methods of Talwani to compute various geopotential components from 2-D [26] or 3-D [27] bodies. The package is maintained by Joaquim Luis and Paul Wessel.
This package contains the programs :doc:`coupe </supplements/seis/coupe>`, :doc:`meca </supplements/seis/meca>`, :doc:`polar </supplements/seis/polar>`, :doc:`sac </supplements/seis/sac>`, :doc:`grdvs30 </supplements/seis/grdvs30>`, and :doc:`grdshake </supplements/seis/grdshake>`, which are used by seismologists for plotting focal mechanisms (including cross-sections and polarities), compute Vs30 velocities, intensity maps and SAC files. The coupe, meca, and polar were developed by Kurt Feigl and Genevieve Patau, while Dongdong Tian added sac; the package is now maintained by the GMT team.
This package contains programs to plot SEGY seismic data files using the GMT mapping transformations and postscript library. :doc:`segy </supplements/segy/segy>` generates a 2-D plot (x:location and y:time/depth) while :doc:`segyz </supplements/segy/segyz>` generates a 3-D plot (x and y: location coordinates, z: time/depth). Locations may be read from predefined or arbitrary portions of each trace header. Finally, :doc:`segy2grd </supplements/segy/segy2grd>` can convert SEGY data to a GMT grid file. The package is maintained by Tim Henstock [28].
This package contains the plate tectonic programs :doc:`backtracker </supplements/spotter/backtracker>`, which you can use to move geologic markers forward or backward in time, :doc:`grdpmodeler </supplements/spotter/grdpmodeler>` which evaluates predictions of a plate motion model on a grid, :doc:`grdrotater </supplements/spotter/grdrotater>` which rotates entire grids using a finite rotation, :doc:`hotspotter </supplements/spotter/hotspotter>` which generates CVA grids based on seamount locations and a set of absolute plate motion stage poles (:doc:`grdspotter </supplements/spotter/grdspotter>` does the same using a bathymetry grid instead of seamount locations), :doc:`originater </supplements/spotter/originater>`, which associates seamounts with the most likely hotspot origins, :doc:`polespotter </supplements/spotter/polespotter>`, which determines likely stage pole locations from seafloor fabric, and :doc:`rotconverter </supplements/spotter/rotconverter>` which does various operations involving finite rotations on a sphere. The package is maintained by Paul Wessel.
This package contains the tools :doc:`x2sys_datalist </supplements/x2sys/x2sys_datalist>`, which allows you to extract data from almost any binary or ASCII data file, and :doc:`x2sys_cross </supplements/x2sys/x2sys_cross>` which determines crossover locations and errors generated by one or several geospatial tracks. Newly added are the tools :doc:`x2sys_init </supplements/x2sys/x2sys_init>`, :doc:`x2sys_binlist </supplements/x2sys/x2sys_binlist>`, :doc:`x2sys_get </supplements/x2sys/x2sys_get>`, :doc:`x2sys_list </supplements/x2sys/x2sys_list>`, :doc:`x2sys_put </supplements/x2sys/x2sys_put>`, :doc:`x2sys_report </supplements/x2sys/x2sys_report>`, :doc:`x2sys_solve </supplements/x2sys/x2sys_solve>` and :doc:`x2sys_merge </supplements/x2sys/x2sys_merge>` which extends the track-management system employed by the mgg supplement to generic track data of any format. This package represents a new generation of tools and replaces the old x_system package. The package is maintained by Paul Wessel.
| [23] | For data bases, see http:https://topex.ucsd.edu/marine_grav/mar_grav.html. |
| [24] | The ASCII MGD77 data are available on CD-ROM from NCEI (http:https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/). |
| [25] | Okabe, M., 1979, Analytical expressions for gravity anomalies due to polyhedral bodies and translation into magnetic anomalies, Geophysics, 44, 730–741. |
| [26] | Talwani, M., J. L. Worzel, and M. Landisman (1959), Rapid gravity computations for two-dimensional bodies with application to the Mendocino submarine fracture zone, J. Geophys. Res., 64, 49–59. |
| [27] | Talwani, M., and M. Ewing (1960), Rapid computation of gravitational attraction of three-dimensional bodies of arbitrary shape, Geophysics, 25, 203–225. |
| [28] | Timothy J. Henstock, University of Southampton |
| [29] | Wessel, P., Matthews, K. J., Müller, R. D., Mazzoni, A., Whittaker, J. M., Myhill, R., Chandler, M. T., 2015, "Semiautomatic fracture zone tracking", Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 16 (7), 2462–2472. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GC005853. |