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<div> I have uploaded to <a href="http://sf.net">sf.net</a> Release 2 of the OpenGrADS extensions for GrADS v1.9.0-rc1. See Release Notes below. Sources and binaries can be downloaded from:</div>
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<div> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=161773&package_id=256757">http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=161773&package_id=256757</a></div>
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<div>Besides a full set of documentaion, we have added support for reading Grib-2 in v1.9 through a function (quite functional but not the same as the native Grib-2 support in GrADS v2), and support for displaying shapefiles in GrADS. The over 30 functions in Libbjt are now fully documented, including its statistical, thermodynamical, advection and integration functions - check it out. The Poisson solver fish has been improved with functions to compute streamfunction and velocity potential directly from u and v.</div>
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<div>A revised Win32 Superpack will be available in the next week or so. Notice that these extensions do not yet work with GrADS v2, neither will it work with v1.9b4.</div>
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<div> Let me know of any problems,</div>
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<div> Cheers,</div>
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<div> Arlindo</div>
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<div><br clear="all">Version 1.9.0-2, 2008-04-02<br>---------------------------</div>
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<div>This is the Release 2 of the OpenGrADS Extensions for GrADS<br>v1.9.0-rc1. The following 2 new packages are provided:</div>
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<div> * Grib2 - Reading Grib-2 Files in GrADS v1.9<br> * Shape - Plotting of Shapefiles (basemaps, etc.)</div>
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<div>Documentation has been added and revised for the remaining packages:</div>
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<div> * Env - Setting and retrieving environment variables<br> * Fish - Streamfunction and Velocity Potential<br> * GsUDF - Writing User Defined Functions as GrADS Scripts<br> * GxYAT - Highy quality images in PNG, Postscript, PDF and SVG formats<br>
* Libbjt - Ben-Jei Tsuang's Function Collection<br> * Libipc - Functions for Inter-process Communication<br> * Re - 2D Regridding</div>
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<div>Please consult:</div>
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<div> <a href="http://opengrads.org/doc/">http://opengrads.org/doc/</a></div>
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<div>for an online version of the documentation.</div>
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<div>The Poisson solver extension Fish has been revised for robusteness and<br>ease of use. It now provides functions fish_psi(u,v) and fish_chi(u,v)<br>for computing streamfunction/velocity potential from the wind<br>components.</div>
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<div><br>-- <br>Arlindo da Silva<br><a href="mailto:dasilva@alum.mit.edu">dasilva@alum.mit.edu</a> </div>