<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">There's no way to do sorting in GrADS right now, but it's high on our list of features we'd like to implement. It will fall under the category of 'operations on define objects' and will require a fair bit of available memory, depending on how much data you want to sort. <div>--Jennifer</div><div><br><div><br><div><div>On Mar 21, 2011, at 11:45 AM, Becker, Bernd wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br>Hello,<br><br>what have we available in Grads that can sort by size?<br><br>In recipe-020, box and whisker plot ranges are calculated by <br>fraction of standard deviation.<br><br>Assume, one were to plot quantiles after ranking:<br><br>how would one achieve the ranking?<br><br>of a stack of 2-d fields?<br><br>This can be a compute intensive and time consuming affair. <br>But it would certainly be nice to have. <br><br>(in metview, macro "distribution" does the trick)<br><br>many thanks for your suggestions. <br><br>Bernd.<br><br><br>--<br>Bernd Becker Climate Impacts Product Development<br>Met Office Hadley Centre FitzRoy Road Exeter Devon EX1 3PB United<br>Kingdom<br>Tel.: +44 (0) 1392 884511 Fax: +44 (0)870 900 5050<br>E-mail:<a href="mailto:bernd.becker@metoffice.gov.uk">bernd.becker@metoffice.gov.uk</a> -<br><a href="http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/our-scientists/seasonal-to-decadal/">http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/our-scientists/seasonal-to-decadal/</a><br>bernd-becker<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br>gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br>http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<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></div></body></html>