<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi, Paul -- <div>That is a very good suggestion, something I had overlooked. I will add something about ensemble metadata to the sdfopen doc as well as the ensemble doc. Thanks!</div><div>--Jennifer</div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 21, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Paul Earnshaw wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Jennifer,<br><br>Thank you for the extra documentation, it has been a great help.<br><br>There was one thing I think may need to be added, and I am sorry if this<br>is in the documentation and I have missed it somewhere. Could you make<br>it clear how GrADS identifies the ensemble dimension in SDF files?<br><br>By this I mean having either the attribute "axis" or "grads_dim" set to<br>"E" or "e" for the ensemble dimension.<br><br>I did eventually work it out by digging in the source code, and I think<br>it would be useful in the main documentation.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Paul<br><br>On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 08:57 -0500, Jennifer Adams wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi, Everyone --<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I have added a new section to the User's Guide that explains how the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">ensemble dimension has been implemented in GrADS 2.0. Additional<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">topics include how to create a descriptor file for an ensemble data<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">set, how to organize your data using templating, special<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">considerations for certain data formats, and some examples (with<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">illustrations!) using real data.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/ensembles.html">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/ensembles.html</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Real time NCEP GFS Ensemble forecasts are behind our GDS at <a href="http://monsoondata.org:9090/dods/gfsens/">http://monsoondata.org:9090/dods/gfsens/</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Why not take a moment to fire up 'gradsdap', use 'sdfopen' to access<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the latest forecast, and start playing with ensemble data. It's cool!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--Jennifer<br></blockquote>--<br>Dr. Paul Earnshaw Global Model Development and Diagnostics<br>Met Office FitzRoy Road Exeter Devon EX1 3PB United Kingdom<br>Tel: +44 (0)1392 884525 Fax: +44 (0)1392 885681<br>email: <a href="mailto:paul.earnshaw@metoffice.gov.uk">paul.earnshaw@metoffice.gov.uk</a> website: <a href="http://www.metoffice.gov.uk">www.metoffice.gov.uk</a><br><br>Met Office climate change predictions can now be viewed on Google Earth<br><a href="http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/hadleycentre/google/">http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/hadleycentre/google/</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <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 style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><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><a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org">jma@cola.iges.org</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></div></span> </div><br></div></body></html>