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Dear Jennifer<br>
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CPTEC/INPE at Brasil (Center for Weather Forecast and Climate Studies/<br>
National Institute for Space Research; in Portuguese: Centro de
Previsão de Tempo<br>
e Estudos Climáticos do Intituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais) is an
operational,<br>
development and research institute for weather and climate predictions.
At least 90%<br>
of the images is generated by GrADS. The CPTEC´s URL is:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cptec.inpe.br">http://www.cptec.inpe.br</a><br>
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Best Regards,<br>
José Paulo Bonatti<br>
Deputy Director CPTEC/INPE<br>
In charge of Modeling and Development Division (DMD/CPTEC)<br>
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Jennifer M. Adams wrote:
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<div>We are gathering some statistics that illustrate the widespread
use of GrADS. For example:</div>
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<div>GrADS users subscribed to this list: 1402</div>
<div style="margin: 0px;">FTP downloads of GrADS tar files in 2006:
14,963</div>
<div>Hits to the online documentation in 2006: 1.3 million</div>
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<div>To supplement the stats, I am also collecting a list of web
sites that use GrADS to generate images .... if you are administering
or regularly browsing such a web site, could you please email me the
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<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>Jennifer</div>
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<div>Jennifer M. Adams</div>
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<div>4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302</div>
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Jose Paulo Bonatti
Dr. em Meteorologia - Pesquisador Titular
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais - INPE
Centro de Previsao de Tempo e Estudos Climaticos - CPTEC
Divisao de Modelagem e Desenvolvimento - DMD
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cptec.inpe.br/">http://www.cptec.inpe.br/</a>)
Rodovia Presidente Dutra, km 40 SPRJ
12630-000 Cachoeira Paulista - SP - Brasil
Tel: (+55) (12) 3186.8421 Fax: (+55) (12) 3101.2835
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