<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">TUE 20MAY08: 1140PDT<div><br></div><div>Dear Grads Users</div><div><br></div><div>I was always under the impression that one could NOT write out NETCDF files from GRADS directly, but that you had to use LATS4D to accomplish this.</div><div><br></div><div>However, on the latest update of the GRADS pages found at: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://grads.iges.org/grads/downloads.html">http://grads.iges.org/grads/downloads.html</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>I see this: </div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">The GrADS exectuables for versions <b>1.9 </b>and earlier are as follows:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">gradsc <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Reads GRIB, gridded binary, BUFR, GrADS station data</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Writes GRIB</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF141F">gradsnc</font></b> Reads GRIB, gridded binary, BUFR, GrADS station data, NetCDF</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b>Writes </b>GRIB, <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF141F"><b>NetCDF</b></font></div></div><div><br></div><div>Is this a mistake, and if not, how does one write NETCDF formatted output directly from GRADS 1.9b4? I thought one could only write gridded binary files. I have never been able to find any documentation regarding this (writing NETCDF output from GRADS). I know that version 2.0 is slated to have the NETCDF "write" functionality built into it in upcoming releases.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance.</div><div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Kevin M Levey, MSc in Oceans and Atmospheric Sciences (University of Cape Town)</div><div>Director of Meteorological Operations</div><div>CustomWeather, Inc.</div><div>San Francisco, California, USA</div><div><br></div><div>"Taking the World by Storm!"</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.customweather.com">http://www.customweather.com</a></div><div><a href="http://www.myforecast.com">http://www.myforecast.com</a></div><div><a href="http://www.1stweather.com">http://www.1stweather.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>cell: 415-794-0411</div><div>work: 415-777-3566</div><div>email: <a href="mailto:klevey@customweather.com">klevey@customweather.com</a></div><div><br></div></div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>