[gradsusr] GrADS Milestones

[Ousmane Ndiaye]

Dear all,
I just want to second and say I totally agree with Robert
I knew Grads as young researcher from developing country Grads was such a help : available, free of charge, and with good supporting team. I have to say it helps us to be able to be part of scientific community : facilitating publication and data analysis in general.
Thanks to all who helped out on this big project :  Brian, Jennifer, Fiorino, Wesley and all others. 
Ousmane

Dr Ousmane Ndiaye
Senegalese National Weather Service
Dakar Senegal



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De: "Robert Hart" <rhart at fsu.edu>
À: "GrADS Users Forum" <gradsusr at gradsusr.org>
Envoyé: Vendredi 27 Avril 2018 02:24:01
Objet: Re: [gradsusr] GrADS Milestones

Jim et al., 




I must add my own deep gratitude to Brian and Jennifer (especially), and so many others including Mike Fiorino for their immense and prescient work so many years ago. Using GrADS, and the scripts I've written for it (some of which so, so many others have used), became such a part of who I was and am professionally that it's hard to imagine how my early professional life would be different without GrADS. The first version of the plotskew.gs script was emailed to this list (or an earlier variant) in mid 1996, and at my first AMS conference as a graduate student in Norfolk, VA a few months later, I saw skewt plots from that (then horribly written) script shown in presentations from people I did not know. It was a profound mixture of accomplishment, community, humility and satisfaction I felt at such an early point in my career that would not have been possible without the extraordinary work of Brian and Jennifer and their generosity with their time. 

I personally view the advent of GrADS (along with the release of wgrib and later wgrib2--Thank you Wesley) as the foundation of a major revolution in the mid-late 1990s enabling real-time weather data processing and display at a time when the internet was nascent for the general public. Remarkable synchronicity. 




Again, many thanks to Brian and Jennifer. 




Bob Hart 

Professor of Meteorology 

Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science 

Florida State University