Here is a Matlab GUI that enables to visualize 2Dim data of a time evolution simulation.
To use it, you must download the following M-files (in a same directory):

The UI-control file : GUI_vis2d.m

The Callback file : GUI_action2d.m

To run the GUI from Matlab, you simply type the command :

>> GUI_vis2d

The main window will then appear from which you can:

    -> Load data-files in netCDF format from different directories.
    -> Visualize the 2Dim data in various forms (surface plot, colormap etc).
    -> Make cuts of the 2Dim data along the two axis.
    -> Scan the data Forward/Backward in time.
    -> Skip directly to a given time or time frame number.

Data files must be in netCDF format (loaded into Matlab using the MexCDF toolbox).

The netCDF file may contain other data then the one you specifically want to visualize with this GUI. For this purpose, all variables to be accessible by the GUI must be given an integer scalar attribute called "data_dim" and assigned the value 2. This convention enables the GUI to filter these variables.

In addition, variables must also be given a text attribute called "text", containing the LaTex - style text used for labeling the data in Matlab.