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

Mon Jun 13 14:12:06 EDT 2011

Hi Hyancinth

This is the link for download GrADS 2.0.a9 oga:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opengrads/files/grads2/

you can download latest version of GrADS and use it in your system
1-  tar -xvf grads.tar.gz(your downloaded file will in tar.gz format)
2- copy the Content folder to out GrADS flder.
3- type this Command in your terminal for load GrADS: /your GrADS
path/Content/opengrads------> enter

best wishes

Saeed Bayat
M.A Student of Climatology
Department of Geography
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad(Iran)
saeedbayat7276 at gmail.com

2011/6/13 Hyacinth Nnamchi <hyacinth.1 at hotmail.com>

>  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
>
>
>
>
>
> > From: gradsusr-request at gradsusr.org
> > Subject: gradsusr Digest, Vol 16, Issue 9
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> > Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:53:22 -0400
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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 gradsu! sr.org>
> > Message-ID: <975709.48970.qm at web24602.mail.ird.y ahoo.com>
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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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> > Message: 2
> > Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:24:53 -0400
> > From: Minghua zheng &l! t;ming.h.zheng at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [gradsusr] make a vector wind NCEP data
> > To: GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr at gradsusr.org>
> > Message-ID: <BANLkTi=-tuMxqW1C=8cCDV-c4YcMQgbjjg at mail.gmail.com>
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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
> > > ---------------------------------------------
> &g! t; > Doctoral Students
> > > Department of Life and Environm ental Sciences
> > > Graduate School of Sciences and Technology
> > > Kumamoto University
> > >
> > >
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> > Message: 3
> > 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
> > Message-ID:
> > <573195859.62825.1307728899246.JavaMail.root at mailhub017.itcs.purdue.edu>
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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 Requ! est 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > 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>
> > Message-ID: <BANLkTiksRtJG9apxcYd5wqwozWxC1L1z2g at mail.gmail.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> >
> > 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 humidi! ty at
> pressure
> > levels, will not suffice. You'll have to conve rt 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<http://moe.met.fsu.edu/%7Erhart/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
> &! gt; > Drawing temperature sounding.
> > > Drawing dewpoint s ounding.
> > > 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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> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jeff Duda
> > Iowa State University
> > Meteorology Graduate Student
> > 3134 Agronomy Hall
> > www.meteor.iastate.edu/~jdduda <http://www.meteor.iastate.edu/%7Ejdduda>
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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>
> > Message-ID: <BANLkTintip-Oi1+_JjiBuYRuWDC2hGoq2Q at mail.gmail.com>
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> >
> > Hi Rusmawan
> >
> > First: Open your Uwind data, then define! it as a axpression(for
> instance:
> > define u=uwnd), then open yo ur 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 St! udents
> > > Department of Life and Environmental Sciences
> > > Graduate School of Sciences and Technology
> > > Kumamoto University
> > >
> > >
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> > Message: 6
> > 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>
> > Conten! t-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> >
> > Hi Saeed and Zhen g
> > 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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