* * * New Releases of GrADS 1.9b4 and GDS 1.3 * * * (ECMWF BUFR)

[Jennifer Adams]

If you can get the required table from ECMWF, you can prepend it to
your BUFR file and bufrscan will decode it for you.  --Jennifer



On May 25, 2005, at 11:20 AM, Davide Sacchetti wrote:

> Dear Jennifer, thanks for the good new!
>
> a minor failure exists with ECMWF BUFR data: this is the error I got
> from bufrscan (bufr file IPB05071200051712001 is attacched)
>
> #/usr/local/grads/grads-1.9b4/bin/bufrscan ./tables
> IPB05071200051712001
>
>>>> processing message 0
>>>> start of message
> error: no table information for FXY 0-08-195
>
>
> Anyway have a good day!
> cheers
> Davide
>
> On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 12:47 -0400, Jennifer Adams wrote:
>> COLA is proud to announce the arrival of two new software releases,
>> GrADS version 1.9b4 and GDS 1.3!
>>
>> Both packages are now copyrighted under the terms of the GNU General
>> Public License:
>> http://www.iges.org/grads/gds/COPYRIGHT
>> http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/COPYRIGHT
>>
>> GrADS 1.9b4:
>> This release contains numerous new commands and features, fixes of
>> reported bugs, new documentation, and stabilization of existing code.
>> Enhanced metadata handling has been added as a complement to the new
>> GDS release, as well as large file support, new templating options,
>> and
>> expansion and improvement of the dtype netcdf/hdfsds interface.
>> Complete details of the new release are here:
>> http://www.iges.org/grads/whatsnew.html
>> Binary executables are available for DEC alpha, Mac OSX, SunOS 5.9,
>> three flavors of Linux (RedHat 7.1, RedHat 9, and RedHat Enterprise
>> 3),
>> and IRIX 6.5. See the downloads page at
>> http://www.iges.org/grads/downloads.html
>>
>> GDS 1.3:
>> The Java DAP has been updated to version 1.1.7 which implements DAP
>> 2.0, the THREDDS XML was updated to version 1.0, and the attribute
>> handling has been completely overhauled and updated. Complete details
>> of the new GDS release are in http://www.iges.org/grads/gds/README .
>> To
>> take full advantage of all the new features, It is highly recommend
>> that you also upgrade the version of GrADS running behind GDS. See the
>> GDS home page ( http://www.iges.org/grads/gds/ ) for  instructions.
>>
>> Jennifer
>> --
>> Jennifer Miletta Adams
>> IGES/COLA
>> 4041 Powder Mill Rd., Suite 302
>> Calverton, MD 20705
>> jma at cola.iges.org
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> Sacchetti Davide
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Jennifer Miletta Adams
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4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302
Calverton, MD 20705 USA
jma at cola.iges.org