[gradsusr] * * * GrADS 2.2.0 * * *

Arlindo da Silva dasilva at alum.mit.edu
Fri Sep 8 09:10:46 EDT 2017


On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Brian Gaze <brianw.gaze at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there any chance of an OpenGrads Windows build of 2.2.0?
>
> Arlindo possibly?
>
>
​Very likely. However, I never start with the Windows build because it
tends to be the most finicky.​  In particular, shared objects behave a
little different from linux/macOS.

​    Arlindo​




> Thanks
>
> Brian
>
>
>
> On 6 September 2017 at 12:02, <gradsusr-request at gradsusr.org> wrote:
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>>    1. * * * GrADS 2.2.0 * * * (Jennifer M Adams)
>>    2. Re: Open netcdf file with rotated spherical grid mapped   to a
>>       NPS projection (Oriol Ciurana)
>>    3. Re: * * * GrADS 2.2.0 * * * (TAO Fl)
>>
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 19:50:56 +0000
>> From: Jennifer M Adams <jadams21 at gmu.edu>
>> Subject: [gradsusr] * * * GrADS 2.2.0 * * *
>> To: GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr at gradsusr.org>
>> Message-ID: <831808DE-2CAE-4A16-B107-09104C726E7B at gmu.edu>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>>
>> Hi, Everybody!
>> Brian and I are happy to present GrADS version 2.2.0. The new release
>> merits a significant uptick because it merges the graphics capabilities
>> from versions 2.0 and 2.1 and all the available graphics engines are now
>> handled as plug-ins. You can choose at startup which rendering engine you?d
>> like to use for interactive display and printing (defaults are Cairo).
>> Documentation may be found here<http://cola.gmu.edu/grads
>> /gadoc/plugins.html> ? please read the whole page.
>>
>> The GrADS download page<http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/downloads.php> has
>> links to the source code, and pre-compiled binary distributions for three
>> flavors of unix. I built the binary distributions on COLA?s servers
>> (CentOS7), and at NCAR on yellowstone (rhel6) and cheyenne (suse12). I will
>> post a build for Mac OS X as soon as I can.
>>
>> Those of you who build from source will find changes in the configure
>> scripts to support the building of shared objects for the graphics plugins.
>> The organization of the supplibs is a little different as well. Please see
>> http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/gadoc/supplibs2.html for guidance on building
>> from source.
>>
>> Other features of this build are itemized in the complete ChangeLog<
>> http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/ChangeLog>, and also copied below for your
>> convenience.
>> Don't be afraid to upgrade!
>> ?Jennifer
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jennifer Miletta Adams
>> Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)
>> George Mason University
>>
>>
>>
>>     Features:
>>     * Graphics display and printing are now handled as independent
>> plug-ins.
>>         Cairo is the default, but the traditional X11 display (with
>> widgets) and
>>         the old GD interface for image output are available as
>> user-specified options.
>>         There is also no-op gxdummy plug-in for when no graphics
>> capabilities are needed.
>>     * New arguments on startup for specifying graphics plug-in names (-d
>> and -h)
>>     * New requirements for the User-Defined Plug-in Table: gxdisplay and
>> gxprint
>>     * Overhaul of auto configuration protocol to support creation of
>> shared libraries
>>         for the graphics plug-ins.
>>     * Added command 'q udpt' that lists all available plug-ins
>>     * Added command 'q gxconfig' that reports the configuration of
>> graphics plug-ins
>>     * Updated the output from the 'q config' command
>>     * New command 'q font' returns information about a specific font
>>     * Added support in grib2scan to print model version date for PDTs 60
>> and 61
>>     * Added optional argument to 'q dbf' to specify a delimiter other
>> than ","
>>     * Increased max number of block requests to raise limit on station
>> data memory usage
>>
>>     Bug Fixes:
>>     * Fixed bug to use an 8-byte integer to store a variable's offset in
>> a file
>>     * Fixed bug in new shaded contour algorithm when plotting a range
>> beyond the
>>         data maximum and csmooth is on.
>>     * Fixed routines handling netcdf4 cachesize so it resets if user
>> adjusts scale factor
>>     * Fixed mismatched max length of variable description in descriptor
>> files
>>     * Fixed bug when drawing zero-sized strings with Cairo
>>
>>     New/Updated Documentation:
>>     * http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/gadoc/udp.html
>>     * http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/gadoc/udpt.html
>>     * http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/gadoc/plugins.html
>>     * http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/gadoc/supplibs2.html
>>     * http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/gadoc/gradcomdgrads.html
>>     * http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/gadoc/gradcomdqdbf.html
>>     * http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/gadoc/gradcomdquery.html
>>
>>     Supplibs Update:
>>     * Simplified the protocol for building, installing, and checking the
>> supplibs
>>         in conjunction with changes to auto configuration scripts.
>>     * New documentation page: http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/gado
>> c/supplibs2.html
>>     * Updated the gadap library to version 2.1 to add support for a
>> shared object
>>         and some minor fixes for compilation on newer versions of unix.
>>     * Linked with pixman-0.34.0 and cairo-1.14.10
>>
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 10:36:20 +0200
>> From: Oriol Ciurana <uri at uriens.cat>
>> Subject: Re: [gradsusr] Open netcdf file with rotated spherical grid
>>         mapped  to a NPS projection
>> To: gradsusr at gradsusr.org
>> Message-ID:
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>> Hello, could anyone help me with this topic please?
>>
>> I am not able to read the CMEMS ARCTIC_ANALYSIS_FORECAST_WAV_002_006
>> <http://marine.copernicus.eu/services-portfolio/access-to-pr
>> oducts/?option=com_csw&view=details&product_id=ARCTIC_ANALYS
>> IS_FORECAST_WAV_002_006>
>> product with GrADS :(
>> Any help would be very apreciated.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Oriol Ciurana
>>
>> 2017-08-30 16:03 GMT+02:00 Oriol Ciurana <uri at uriens.cat>:
>>
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I'm trying to open with GrADS a netcdf file from Marine Copernicus
>> (CMEMS)
>> > with no luck. The product is described in
>> http://cmems-resources.cls.fr/
>> > documents/PUM/CMEMS-ARC-PUM-002-006.pdf and as you can see at the top
>> of
>> > page 8, the grid is a rotated spherical grid mapped to a NPS projection.
>> >
>> > I have read in http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/gadoc/pdef.html that a
>> > descriptor file with a defined PDEF is needed, but I don't know how to
>> > define this descriptor file and, in particular, the parameters of PDEF.
>> >
>> > Could anyone help me, please?
>> >
>> > An example file is available here (CMEMS login/password required, free
>> > registration):
>> > ftp://mftp.cmems.met.no/Core/ARCTIC_ANALYSIS_FORECAST_WAV_
>> > 002_006/dataset-mywave-arctic-be/20170831_MyWaveWam8_b20170830.nc
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance,
>> >
>> > Oriol Ciurana
>> >
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>> Message: 3
>> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 11:02:23 +0000 (UTC)
>> From: TAO Fl <taofl2002 at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: Re: [gradsusr] * * * GrADS 2.2.0 * * *
>> To: GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr at gradsusr.org>
>> Message-ID: <933890162.4053739.1504695743547 at mail.yahoo.com>
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>>
>> That is great update!
>> Where is the latest version for MS window system??
>>
>>     On Tuesday, September 5, 2017 10:55 PM, Jennifer M Adams <
>> jadams21 at gmu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>   Hi, Everybody!?Brian and I are happy to present GrADS version 2.2.0.
>> The new release merits a significant uptick because it merges the graphics
>> capabilities from versions 2.0 and 2.1 and all the available graphics
>> engines are now handled as plug-ins. You can choose at startup which
>> rendering engine you?d like to use for interactive display and printing
>> (defaults are Cairo). Documentation may be found?here?? please read the
>> whole page.
>> The?GrADS download page?has links to the source code, and pre-compiled
>> binary distributions for three flavors of unix. I built the binary
>> distributions on COLA?s servers (CentOS7), and at NCAR on yellowstone
>> (rhel6) and cheyenne (suse12). I will post a build for Mac OS X as soon as
>> I can.?
>> Those of you who build from source will find changes in the configure
>> scripts to support the building of shared objects for the graphics plugins.
>> The organization of the supplibs is a little different as well. Please
>> seehttp://cola.gmu.edu/grads/gadoc/supplibs2.html for guidance on
>> building from source.?
>> Other features of this build are itemized in the complete?ChangeLog, and
>> also copied below for your convenience.?Don't be afraid to
>> upgrade!??Jennifer
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jennifer Miletta Adams
>> Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)
>> George Mason University
>>
>>
>>     Features:
>>     * Graphics display and printing are now handled as independent
>> plug-ins.
>>         Cairo is the default, but the traditional X11 display (with
>> widgets) and
>>         the old GD interface for image output are available as
>> user-specified options.
>>         There is also no-op gxdummy plug-in for when no graphics
>> capabilities are needed.
>>     * New arguments on startup for specifying graphics plug-in names (-d
>> and -h)
>>     * New requirements for the User-Defined Plug-in Table: gxdisplay and
>> gxprint
>>     * Overhaul of auto configuration protocol to support creation of
>> shared libraries
>>         for the graphics plug-ins.
>>     * Added command 'q udpt' that lists all available plug-ins
>>     * Added command 'q gxconfig' that reports the configuration of
>> graphics plug-ins
>>     * Updated the output from the 'q config' command
>>     * New command 'q font' returns information about a specific font
>>     * Added support in grib2scan to print model version date for PDTs 60
>> and 61
>>     * Added optional argument to 'q dbf' to specify a delimiter other
>> than ","
>>     * Increased max number of block requests to raise limit on station
>> data memory usage
>>
>>     Bug Fixes:
>>     * Fixed bug to use an 8-byte integer to store a variable's offset in
>> a file
>>     * Fixed bug in new shaded contour algorithm when plotting a range
>> beyond the
>>         data maximum and csmooth is on.
>>     * Fixed routines handling netcdf4 cachesize so it resets if user
>> adjusts scale factor
>>     * Fixed mismatched max length of variable description in descriptor
>> files
>>     * Fixed bug when drawing zero-sized strings with Cairo
>>
>>     New/Updated Documentation:
>>     * http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/gadoc/udp.html
>>     * http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/gadoc/udpt.html
>>     * http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/gadoc/plugins.html
>>     * http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/gadoc/supplibs2.html
>>     * http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/gadoc/gradcomdgrads.html
>>     * http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/gadoc/gradcomdqdbf.html
>>     * http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/gadoc/gradcomdquery.html
>>
>>     Supplibs Update:
>>     * Simplified the protocol for building, installing, and checking the
>> supplibs
>>         in conjunction with changes to auto configuration scripts.
>>     * New documentation page: http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/gado
>> c/supplibs2.html
>>     * Updated the gadap library to version 2.1 to add support for a
>> shared object
>>         and some minor fixes for compilation on newer versions of unix.
>>     * Linked with pixman-0.34.0 and cairo-1.14.10
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