[gradsusr] How to install GrADS in Ubuntu Linux 11.04?

Hyacinth Nnamchi hyacinth.1 at hotmail.com
Mon Jun 13 06:36:09 EDT 2011


Pls can anyone offer my a step-by-step guide to install grads on my laptop (ubuntu linux). I have tried all possible options including the opengrads/COLA and "sudo apt-get install grads". The latter is able to have grads installed but am unable to read any files after grads is installed this way.
Thanks in advance,
Hyacinth




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>    1. make a vector wind NCEP data (Rusmawan Suwarman)
>    2. Re: make a vector wind NCEP data (Minghua zheng)
>    3. Make a Skew-T diagram from WRF output (Ryan Meiszberg)
>    4. Re: Make a Skew-T diagram from WRF output (Jeffrey Duda)
>    5. Re: make a vector wind NCEP data (saeed bayat)
>    6. Re: make a vector wind NCEP data (Rusmawan Suwarman)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:13:27 +0100 (BST)
> From: Rusmawan Suwarman <rusmedong at yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: [gradsusr] make a vector wind NCEP data
> To: grads <gradsusr at gradsusr.org>
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> Dear group,
> 
> I aim to make a wind vector from NCEP netCDF file. The problem is zonal and 
> meridional wind are divided as uwnd and vwnd nc file. Do you know how to make 
> it. Is it necessary to make those to be one file? How is it?
> Thank you in advance
> 
> Best regards 
>  Rusmawan Suwarman
> ---------------------------------------------
> Doctoral Students
> Department of Life and Environmental Sciences
> Graduate School of Sciences and Technology
> Kumamoto University
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> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:24:53 -0400
> From: Minghua zheng <ming.h.zheng at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [gradsusr] make a vector wind NCEP data
> To: GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr at gradsusr.org>
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> Try the following commands:
> d uwnd;vwnd
> or
> d skip(uwnd,2,2);vwnd
> Good luck.
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Rusmawan Suwarman <rusmedong at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:
> 
> >   Dear group,
> >
> > I aim to make a wind vector from NCEP netCDF file. The problem is zonal and
> > meridional wind are divided as uwnd and vwnd nc file. Do you know how to
> > make it. Is it necessary to make those to be one file? How is it?
> > Thank you in advance
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > Rusmawan Suwarman
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > Doctoral Students
> > Department of Life and Environmental Sciences
> > Graduate School of Sciences and Technology
> > Kumamoto University
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:01:39 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Ryan Meiszberg <rmeiszbe at purdue.edu>
> Subject: [gradsusr] Make a Skew-T diagram from WRF output
> To: gradsusr at gradsusr.org
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> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to create a Skew-T diagrams using....
> 
> "reinit"^M
> "open WRFPRS_2011031712_00.ctl"^M
> "set t 2"^M
> "set lat 18.275"^M
> "set lon -67.189"^M
> "set lev 1000 200"^M
> "define tt=TMPprs-273"^M
> "define qq=SPFHprs*1000"^M
> "define vel=mag(UGRDprs,VGRDprs)"^M
> "define dir=atan2(VGRDprs,UGRDprs)"^M
> *rc=plotskew(tt,qq,vel,dir)^M
> rc=plotskew(tt,qq,-1,-1)
> 
> this is followed by http://moe.met.fsu.edu/~rhart/plotskew.gs
> 
> The script seems to run properly for the first half and does plot temperature, but somewhere it is changing the Z dimensions and causes undefined regions for dewpoint and wind. (see output below)
> 
> Data Request Warning:  Request beyond file limits
> Data Request Warning:  Request beyond file limits
> Data Request Warning:  Request beyond file limits
> Data Request Warning:  Request beyond file limits
> Data Request Warning:  Request beyond file limits
> Data Request Warning:  Request beyond file limits
> Data Request Warning:  Request beyond file limits
> Data Request Warning:  Request beyond file limits
> Data Request Warning:  Request beyond file limits
> Data Request Warning:  Request beyond file limits
> Cannot contour grid - all undefined values 
> Drawing temperature sounding.
> Drawing dewpoint sounding.
> Non-numeric args to numeric operation
>   Error occurred on line 2237
>   In file plotskew2_new.gs
>   Error occurred on line 2252
>   In file plotskew2_new.gs
>   Error occurred on line 1058
>   In file plotskew2_new.gs
>   Error occurred on line 12
>   In file plotskew2_new.gs
> 
> 
> ga-> q dims
> Default file number is: 1 
> X is fixed     Lon = -67.1913  X = 95.0002
> Y is fixed     Lat = 18.2755  Y = 138
> Z is fixed     Lev = -9.99e+33  Z = 3.33e+33
> T is fixed     Time = 13Z17MAR2011  T = 2
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Ryan Meiszberg
> Senoir/Atmospheric Science
> Purdue University
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:22:05 -0500
> From: Jeffrey Duda <jdduda at iastate.edu>
> Subject: Re: [gradsusr] Make a Skew-T diagram from WRF output
> To: GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr at gradsusr.org>
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> Ryan,
> I'm not sure what the ^M is at the end of each line of your script, but
> check to make sure that is not affecting how it runs.  Also, note that the
> program asks for snddewp in the form of dewpoint in degrees C.  Based on
> your variable SPFHprs, which I'm guessing is specific humidity at pressure
> levels, will not suffice.  You'll have to convert that to degrees Celsius.
> If you make these changes and still get errors, note the line numbers of the
> script that are mentioned in the errors and send them to me.  They will
> probably tell you what is going wrong.
> 
> Jeff Duda
> 
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Ryan Meiszberg <rmeiszbe at purdue.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm trying to create a Skew-T diagrams using....
> >
> > "reinit"^M
> > "open WRFPRS_2011031712_00.ctl"^M
> > "set t 2"^M
> > "set lat 18.275"^M
> > "set lon -67.189"^M
> > "set lev 1000 200"^M
> > "define tt=TMPprs-273"^M
> > "define qq=SPFHprs*1000"^M
> > "define vel=mag(UGRDprs,VGRDprs)"^M
> > "define dir=atan2(VGRDprs,UGRDprs)"^M
> > *rc=plotskew(tt,qq,vel,dir)^M
> > rc=plotskew(tt,qq,-1,-1)
> >
> > this is followed by http://moe.met.fsu.edu/~rhart/plotskew.gs
> >
> > The script seems to run properly for the first half and does plot
> > temperature, but somewhere it is changing the Z dimensions and causes
> > undefined regions for dewpoint and wind. (see output below)
> >
> > Data Request Warning:  Request beyond file limits
> > Data Request Warning:  Request beyond file limits
> > Data Request Warning:  Request beyond file limits
> > Data Request Warning:  Request beyond file limits
> > Data Request Warning:  Request beyond file limits
> > Data Request Warning:  Request beyond file limits
> > Data Request Warning:  Request beyond file limits
> > Data Request Warning:  Request beyond file limits
> > Data Request Warning:  Request beyond file limits
> > Data Request Warning:  Request beyond file limits
> > Cannot contour grid - all undefined values
> > Drawing temperature sounding.
> > Drawing dewpoint sounding.
> > Non-numeric args to numeric operation
> >  Error occurred on line 2237
> >  In file plotskew2_new.gs
> >  Error occurred on line 2252
> >  In file plotskew2_new.gs
> >  Error occurred on line 1058
> >  In file plotskew2_new.gs
> >  Error occurred on line 12
> >  In file plotskew2_new.gs
> >
> >
> > ga-> q dims
> > Default file number is: 1
> > X is fixed     Lon = -67.1913  X = 95.0002
> > Y is fixed     Lat = 18.2755  Y = 138
> > Z is fixed     Lev = -9.99e+33  Z = 3.33e+33
> > T is fixed     Time = 13Z17MAR2011  T = 2
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ryan Meiszberg
> > Senoir/Atmospheric Science
> > Purdue University
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > gradsusr mailing list
> > gradsusr at gradsusr.org
> > http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jeff Duda
> Iowa State University
> Meteorology Graduate Student
> 3134 Agronomy Hall
> www.meteor.iastate.edu/~jdduda
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> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 22:59:57 +0430
> From: saeed bayat <saeedbayat7276 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [gradsusr] make a vector wind NCEP data
> To: GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr at gradsusr.org>
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> Hi Rusmawan
> 
> First: Open your Uwind data, then define it as a axpression(for instance:
> define u=uwnd), then open your Vwind data as second file and define it like
> uwind(define u=uwnd). note that second file should define as second file by
> typing: set dfile 2
> then: set gxout vector
> d or display u;v
> 
> Regards
> 
> Saeed Bayat
> M.Sc Student of Climatology
> Ferdowsi University of Mashhad(Iran)
> saeedbayat7276 at gmail.com
> 
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Rusmawan Suwarman <rusmedong at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:
> 
> > Dear group,
> >
> > I aim to make a wind vector from NCEP netCDF file. The problem is zonal and
> > meridional wind are divided as uwnd and vwnd nc file. Do you know how to
> > make it. Is it necessary to make those to be one file? How is it?
> > Thank you in advance
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > Rusmawan Suwarman
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > Doctoral Students
> > Department of Life and Environmental Sciences
> > Graduate School of Sciences and Technology
> > Kumamoto University
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > gradsusr mailing list
> > gradsusr at gradsusr.org
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> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:06:04 +0100 (BST)
> From: Rusmawan Suwarman <rusmedong at yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [gradsusr] make a vector wind NCEP data
> To: GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr at gradsusr.org>
> Message-ID: <743815.6312.qm at web24606.mail.ird.yahoo.com>
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> Hi Saeed and Zheng
> It is work, thank you very much :)
>  
> best regardsRusmawan Suwarman
> ---------------------------------------------
> Doctoral Students
> Department of Life and Environmental Sciences
> Graduate School of Sciences and Technology
> Kumamoto University
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: saeed bayat <saeedbayat7276 at gmail.com>
> To: GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr at gradsusr.org>
> Sent: Sat, 11 June, 2011 3:29:57
> Subject: Re: [gradsusr] make a vector wind NCEP data
> 
> Hi Rusmawan
> 
> First: Open your Uwind data, then define it as a axpression(for instance: define 
> u=uwnd), then open your Vwind data as second file and define it like 
> uwind(define u=uwnd). note that second file should define as second file by 
> typing: set dfile 2
> then: set gxout vector
> d or display u;v
> 
> Regards
> 
> Saeed Bayat
> M.Sc Student of Climatology
> Ferdowsi University of Mashhad(Iran)
> saeedbayat7276 at gmail.com
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Rusmawan Suwarman <rusmedong at yahoo.co.uk> 
> wrote:
> 
> Dear group,
> >
> >
> >I aim to make a wind vector from NCEP netCDF file. The problem is zonal and 
> >meridional wind are divided as uwnd and vwnd nc file. Do you know how to make 
> >it. Is it necessary to make those to be one file? How is it?
> >Thank you in advance
> >
> >
> >Best regards 
> > Rusmawan Suwarman
> >---------------------------------------------
> >Doctoral Students
> >Department of Life and Environmental  Sciences
> >Graduate School of Sciences and Technology
> >Kumamoto University
> >
> >
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