GrADS 2.0.a1

[Oliver König]

Hi Wesley,
Great, does this also mean that I don't have to do 'set t 2' anymore to
display grads2 ?

Regards,
Oliver

On Thursday 14 February 2008 15:41:47 Wesley Ebisuzaki wrote:
> Oliver,
>
>    That bug was fixed.
>
>           Wesley
>
> Oliver König wrote:
> > Hello Wesley,
> > thank you for the new release!!! Do I still have to do 'set t 2' for
> > grib2 files from ftp://ftpprd.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/data/nccf/com/gfs/prod/?
> >
> > and what about this bug?
> > "is that wgrib2 is saying the verification time of an averaging period
> > (ex. 0-3 hour
> > forecast of precip) is the start of the interval.  The verification time
> > needs to be
> > the end of the period to be consistent with GrADS."
> >
> > Regards,
> > Oliver
> >
> > On Wednesday 13 February 2008 23:06:51 Wesley Ebisuzaki wrote:
> >> All,
> >>
> >>    After some queries about the next g2ctl/wgrib2, I just put them on
> >> the web.
> >> For this version, you need to upgrade both programs.  Not everything
> >> works with 2.0.a1.  For example I couldn't get ecwmf thinned gaussian
> >> grids to work.
> >>
> >>            Wesley
> >>
> >> Jennifer Adams wrote:
> >>> I have posted a new release -- 2.0.a1. The src and binaries are here:
> >>>
> >>> ftp://iges.org/grads/2.0/grads-src-2.0.a1.tar.gz
> >>> ftp://iges.org/grads/2.0/grads-bin-2.0.a1-darwin-intel.tar.gz
> >>> ftp://iges.org/grads/2.0/grads-bin-2.0.a1-RHEL5-x86_64.tar.gz
> >>>
> >>> This release has some significant bug fixes:
> >>>
> >>> 0. Detection of linear and wrapping axes for netcdf files opened with
> >>> sdfopen
> >>> 1. GRIB2 grids that have a bitmap were being drawn upside down
> >>> 2. Fixed display for gxout=model and gxout=grid
> >>> 3. Fixed handling of templated netcdf data sets opened with xdfopen
> >>> 4. Fixed detection of unlimited axis in hdf files opened with sdfopen
> >>> 5. Fixed I/O of PDEF files
> >>> 6. Fix to gribmap when creating index files >250mb
> >>> 7. Added some debug statements for detection of errors in calls to
> >>> seekgb() in the grib2c library.
> >>>
> >>> These bugs were causing catastrophic errors (especially #6) and so it
> >>> seemed worthwhile to put out a new release. I have yet to make any
> >>> changes to the build system -- I know it's hard to build from source,
> >>> and I hope to make it easier, but right now fixing catastrophic bugs
> >>> in the GrADS core is a higher priority for me.
> >>>
> >>> To take advantage of the debug statements (#7 above), you must change
> >>> the value of debug in line 75 of gaio.c:
> >>>   static gaint debug=1;
> >>> and then build from source. The binary distributions have debug set to
> >>> 0.
> >>>
> >>> I will work on getting out some more binaries for: Mac PowerPC, SunOS,
> >>> and RHEL4 x86_64. Sorry, we don't have any 32-bit linux boxes at COLA
> >>> anymore.
> >>>
> >>> Please post comments and questions and bug reports here, no matter how
> >>> technical they are. The gradsusr posts are archived and searchable,
> >>> which makes this the best place to report and resolve problems.
> >>>
> >>> Jennifer
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Jennifer M. Adams
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> >>> Calverton, MD 20705
> >>> jma at cola.iges.org <mailto:jma at cola.iges.org>
> >
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