New Release GrADS 2.0.a3

[Jennifer Adams]

Dear All,
Many thanks to John Huddleston and Don Hooper who have provided more
pre-compiled binary distributions of GrADS-2.0.a3. Now we have MS
Windows (requires cygwin) and 32-bit linux (i686) and SunOS. The
downloads page (http://iges.org/grads/downloads.html) has been
updated. If you scroll down to the "Supplementary Files" section,
there is also a link to a windows build of cnvgrib that John
Huddleston also provided.
Jennifer

On Aug 12, 2008, at 9:41 AM, Jennifer Adams wrote:

> I have posted a new version of GrADS: 2.0.a3. The GrADS downloads
> web page (http://iges.org/grads/downloads.html) has been updated
> with links to the source code and pre-compiled binaries for Macs
> and a few 64-bit linux flavors. Here's what new in this release:
>
>     Features:
>     * New set of commands for writing out netcdf files.
>       'sdfwrite'       (creates the file, takes a defined variable
> name as an argument)
>       'set sdfwrite'   (sets the output filename, default is
> grads.sdfwrite.nc)
>       'query sdfwrite' (shows the output filename, format, and user-
> specified attributes)
>       'set sdfattr'    (sets attribute metadata for the output file)
>       'clear sdfwrite' (resets the sdf output filename and releases
> any attributes)
>     * Added "PDEF GENERAL" as an data-format independent
> alternative to "PDEF FILE".
>
>     Fixes:
>     * Station data handling via OPeNDAP (enabled with libgadap)
> works with GDS 2.0.
>     * The stnmap utility does not seg fault when some templated
> data files are missing.
>     * Added PDEF handling for 2-D native HDF and NetCDF files
>     * Data format dependence in PDEF FILE better documented;
>       warning issued when data set that uses PDEF FILE is opened.
>     * Memory leak in scorr().
>     * The index files created by gribmap are portable
>     * parsing of VECTORPAIRS entry in descriptor file does not seq
> fault
>
>     Misc:
>     * Graphical display window is sized according to the height of
> the display;
>       portait is 90% of display height, landscape is 60%.
>     * Changes to the configure tools to facilitate building from
> source
>     * The sdfopen command handles files with "axis" attribute
>     * Output from 'query config' more complete, contains some
> supplib versions
>     * Support for NetCDF and HDF files with spaces in the variable
> names;
>       substitute ~ for <space> in varname=>alias syntax.
>
>
> This build has the initial implementation of the capability to
> write out netCDF files. The interface is to set the desired
> dimension environment, then define a variable, then 'sdfwrite' it:
>     ga-> set lon ... lat ... lev ... time ... ens
>     ga-> define newvar = var
>     ga-> sdfwrite newvar
> In this release, you can only write out one variable per file, and
> you cannot append to an existing file. Later releases will have
> more flexibility built in, but I wanted to get this initial
> implementation out there for testing first. In the meanwhile, the
> workaround is to write two files, then use the netcdf operators to
> merge them.
>
> Documentation pages for the new commands are here:
> http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradcomdsdfwrite.html
> http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradcomdsetsdfwrite.html
> http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradcomdsetsdfattr.html
> http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradcomdqsdfwrite.html
>
> I will be adding additional documentation to the Users Guide on how
> to work with ensembles, how to write out data in various formats,
> how to build from source, and other interesting topics.
>
> Jennifer
>
>
>
> --
> Jennifer M. Adams
> IGES/COLA
> 4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302
> Calverton, MD 20705
> jma at cola.iges.org
>
>
>

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Jennifer M. Adams
IGES/COLA
4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302
Calverton, MD 20705
jma at cola.iges.org



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