[gradsusr] * * * New release: GrADS 2.1.1.b0 * * *

[CW Weather]

On 15-02-2017 10:43, Brian Gaze wrote:

> Good news about the new release.
> 
> Any plans (Arlindo??) for an OpenGrads windows version?
> 
> Brian
> 
>> On 14 February 2017 at 14:16 Jennifer M Adams <jadams21 at gmu.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Happy Valentines Day to all of our forum-subscribing GrADS users!
>> 
>> Brian and I are pleased to announce a new release of GrADS, version 2.1.1.b0.
>> This build has some important and useful new features, perhaps the most
>> exciting being the addition/return of User Defined Plug-in (UDP) functions,
>> which are called plug-ins to distinguish them from the old user defined
>> functions (from the version 1.9 era) and user defined extensions (from
>> opengrads). The opengrads extensions should work with just a few minor
>> adjustments to the entries in the user defined plug-in table. We have also
>> added logical operators to the expression handler, (e.g. 'display slp<980')
>> and an if() function which facilitates the use of the logical operators. The
>> result of a logical expression is 1 or -1, making it especially easy to use
>> with maskout(). Here's how simple it is to create a mask for a lat/lon
>> subdomain:
>> ga-> d maskout(tsfc,(lat>=-5)&(lat<=5)&(lon>=190)&(lon<=240))
>> 
>> Another handy new scripting language function, sys(), will submit a command to
>> the shell, similar to putting a "!" in front of your command, except that the
>> resulting output can be captured and returned as a string buffer to be parsed
>> in your script.
>> 
>> The GrADS downloads web page
>> (http://cola.gmu.edu/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 recent switch from HTTP to
>> HTTPS for most .gov data servers requires that GrADS be linked with the
>> OpenSSL library. This is done dynamically, which means that the library must
>> be present on your local system in order to use the SSL-enabled builds.
>> Because OpenSSL is not always available or may not be the most recent version,
>> I have also created builds that are not linked with OpenSSL.
>> 
>> The full text from the ChangeLog is copied below. Enjoy!
>> --Jennifer
>> 
>> Features:
>> * Added support for User Defined Plug-in functions which replace the old
>> UDFs
>> * Added support for logical operators in the expression syntax (gridded
>> data only)
>> * New function 'if()' performs an if/then/else expression evaluation
>> * New scripting language function 'sys()' submits any command to the shell
>> and
>> returns the resulting text stream that the command sends to standard
>> output
>> * New option '-4de' for the 'set sdfwrite' command
>> * New option for 'q define' prints all the relevant information about a
>> variable
>> * New command 'set barbopts' to support filled pennant flags on wind barbs
>> 
>> Misc:
>> * Added support in gxprint for mixed case file names with the -f or -b
>> option
>> * Added descriptor file entry 'XYTRAILER' for files that have a trailer
>> record
>> 
>> New/Updated Documentation:
>> * http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/gadoc/udp.html
>> * http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/gadoc/expressions.html
>> * http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/gadoc/gradfuncif.html
>> * http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/gadoc/script.html
>> * http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/gadoc/gradcomdsetsdfwrite.html
>> * http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/gadoc/descriptorfile.html
>> * http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/gadoc/gradcomdqdefine.html
>> * http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/gadoc/gradcomdsetbarbopts.html
>> 
>> Supplib Update:
>> * Some builds are linked dynamically with OpenSSL to access data servers
>> via HTTPS.
>> This library may not always be needed or available, so builds without
>> OpenSSL
>> have also been provided.
>> 
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Hi Brian,  

I hope you dont mind me asking but how do you currently run the arome
0.01, do you use opengrads? I get many errors trying to run the data
using opengrads 2.1.a2. I run the ARPEGE fine even though I had to
re-write the wgrib to place the data in order. The packaging was
terrible.

-- 
Kind regards, 

STUART MARKHAM 

_Founder of CW Weather_ 

 
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