General computing literacy for
scientists:
Software Carpentry, "Helping
scientists make better software since 1997" offers many free video
and printed tutorials, starting from basics like UNIX shell commands,
and proceeding deep into scientific software issues.
Scientific computing languages and
packages:
British
NCAS's
list
of
main
atmospheric science analysis packages
IDL-Matlab-Python translation sheet (PDF)
FROM Mathesaurus
Free:
Python - with modules targeting it for
science, earth science, climate science.
GrADS - the OpenGrADS bundle (free)
NCL - NCAR Command Language
R a statistics oriented
package
Commercial:
Matlab (if your PI is a
paying customer at RSMAS, or buy a $100 student license)
IDL (CSTARS has 25 floating;
several of us have individual licenses); Fanning
Web analysis tools:
Ingrid at Lamont-Doherty
Climate
Explorer at KNMI, Netherlands
PSD web
pages (composites etc.)