<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear All, <div>I have posted a new version of GrADS: 2.0.a7. The GrADS downloads web page (<a href="http://iges.org/grads/downloads.html"><font color="#001fdf" style="color: rgb(0, 31, 223); "><u>http://iges.org/grads/downloads.html</u></font></a>) has been updated with links to the source code and a few pre-compiled binaries. This release has some nice new features: <div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> </div><div> * New interface for the HDF5 data format </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> <a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/SDFdescriptorfile.html">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/SDFdescriptorfile.html</a></span></div><div><br></div><div> * New options for templating on Julian Day and Time axis indices</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> <a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/templates.html">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/templates.html</a></span></div><div><br></div><div> * New "offt" syntax for variable specification to express time as an </div><div> offset from the variable's initial time instead of an absolute value</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/variable.html">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/variable.html</a></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> <a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/offt.html">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/offt.html</a></span></div><div><br></div><div> * New function eloop() for obtaining E-varying results from expressions </div><div> that are unable to operate when E is a varying dimension</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> <a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradfunceloop.html">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradfunceloop.html</a></span></div><div><br></div><div> * New option for contour labels: 'set clab masked'</div><div><div> This creates gaps in the contour lines for the labels, so rectangles </div><div> for the label background are not drawn; contour labels never overlap.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> <a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradcomdsetclab.html">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradcomdsetclab.html</a></span></div></div><div><br></div><div>Other enhancements in this build that may be of interest: </div><div><br></div><div> * Fixed sdfopen/xdfopen to detect only those data variables whose </div><div> dimensions match all of the grid dimensions</div><div><br></div><div> * Added isnan() and isinf() tests at initial I/O </div><div><br></div></div><div>Enjoy! </div><div><br></div><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; "><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>