<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Dear OPeNDAP and GrADS Users, </div><div><br></div><div>I am pleased to announce that after a long hiatus in development, a new GDS version has been released. GDS 2.0 has been upgraded for compatibility with all the new capabilities in GrADS version 2.0. The significant changes in the new GDS are that it can serve data in GRIB2 format and it supports 5-Dimensional ensemble data sets. The server-side analysis capability is also more flexible, allowing results that vary in all 5 dimensions. </div><div><br></div><div>The GrADS-friendly library, formerly known as libgadods, has also been reworked (with invaluable help from James, Pat, and Arlindo) for compatibility with GrADS 2.0 and GDS 2.0, and so it has a new name and version number: libgadap-2.0. </div><div><br></div><div>The latest release of GrADS (version 2.0.a3) is a fully-enabled client for GDS 2.0, handling grids and sequences. I am eager to know of the success or failure of other clients when accessing GDS 2.0. Examples of GRIB2 forecast grids from NCEP and surface station observations that are being served by GDS 2.0 are at:</div><div> <a href="http://monsoondata.org:9090/dods/gfs2/">http://monsoondata.org:9090/dods/gfs2/</a> (4D grids at 0.5-degree resolution)</div><div> <a href="http://monsoondata.org:9090/dods/gfsens/">http://monsoondata.org:9090/dods/gfsens/</a> (5D grids at 2.5-degree resolution)</div><div> <a href="http://monsoondata.org:9090/dods/stn/metar/">http://monsoondata.org:9090/dods/stn/metar/</a> (sequence data)</div><div>The data sets listed under these directories are updated in real time. </div><div><br></div><div>For details, please visit the GDS home page at <a href="http://www.iges.org/grads/gds/">http://www.iges.org/grads/gds/</a></div><div><br></div><div>FTP locations for the GDS, GrADS, and libgadap are: </div> <a href="ftp://grads.iges.org/grads/gds/gds-2.0.tar.gz">ftp://grads.iges.org/grads/gds/gds-2.0.tar.gz</a><br> <a href="ftp://grads.iges.org/grads/2.0/">ftp://grads.iges.org/grads/2.0/</a><div> <a href="ftp://grads.iges.org/grads/Supplibs/2.0/src/gadap-2.0.tar.gz">ftp://grads.iges.org/grads/Supplibs/2.0/src/gadap-2.0.tar.gz</a></div><div><br></div><div>Jennifer</div><div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>--</div><div>Jennifer M. Adams</div><div>IGES/COLA</div><div>4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302</div><div>Calverton, MD 20705</div><div><br></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span> </div><br></div></div></body></html>