[gradsusr] * * * New Release: GrADS 2.1.0 * * *

[Brian Gaze]

Thanks Jennifer and Brian that's great. 

Any news on whether a new release of Open GrADS (Arlindo?) will be made
available?

Thanks

Brian




> On 20 June 2016 at 16:34 Jennifer M Adams <jadams21 at gmu.edu> wrote:
> 
>     Dear All, 
>     Brian and I are pleased to announce a new release of GrADS, version 2.1.0.
> We decided that this build is reliable enough to bypass the beta stage, and so
> we’ve given it a ‘stable’ version number. 
> 
>     New features include support for GRIB2 Product Definition Templates 60 and
> 61 (ensemble reforecasts), and for a secondary undef attribute name for NetCDF
> and HDF4 data types. There are also two new commands: ‘pdefwrite’ and ‘set
> misswarn’. Bug fixes include station data handling in the const() and
> coll2grd() functions, the infinite loop in gsfpath(), a tweak to the time
> metadata in the output from sdfwrite, and support for transparent colors in
> KML output. 
> 
>     The GrADS downloads web page (http://iges.org/grads/downloads.html
> http://iges.org/grads/downloads.html ) has been updated with links to the
> source code and pre-compiled binaries for 32-bit and 64-bit linux plus Mac OS
> X (10.9). The full text from the ChangeLog is copied below.
> 
>     —Jennifer
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     2016-06-20 Version 2.1.0
>      
>         Features:
>         * New command pdefwrite writes out internally calculated interpolation
> weights
>         * Added support for GRIB2 PDTs 60 and 61 (Ensemble Reforecasts) 
>         * Added support for a second undef attribute name for netcdf/hdf4
> formats 
>      sdfopen will look for "missing_value" (primary) and "_FillValue"
> (secondary)
>      works with xdfopen-style and full descriptor files 
>         * Previously undocumented command 'set misswarn' -- enables a warning
> message 
>      with missing file names for templated data sets. 
>      
>         Bug Fixes: 
>         * Fixed undef handling for BUFR station data
>         * Fixed undef handling for station data when using -u and -a with
> const()
>         * Closed infinite loop when parsing arguments to script function
> gsfpath()  
>         * Added support for transparent colors in KML output 
>          
>         Misc:
>         * Changed the logo to "GrADS/COLA" 
>         * Output from sdfwrite command will use 'months since' or 'minutes
> since'
>      in time axis metadata depending on what is used in the original data file
>         * coll2gr() now supports the -u option with a vertical coordinate of
> height
>      
>         New Documentation Pages:
>         * http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/pdefwrite.html
>         * http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/setmisswarn.html
> 
>         Supplib Update: 
>         * Linked with g2clib-1.6.0, jasper-1.900.1-ubuntu3.2debian
> 
> 


 

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