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Pls can anyone offer my a step-by-step guide to install grads on my laptop (ubuntu linux). <div>I have tried all possible options including the opengrads/COLA and "sudo apt-get install grads". </div><div>The latter is able to have grads installed but am unable to read any files after grads is installed this way.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance,</div><div><br></div><div>Hyacinth</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br>> From: gradsusr-request@gradsusr.org<br>> Subject: gradsusr Digest, Vol 16, Issue 9<br>> To: gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br>> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:53:22 -0400<br>> <br>> Send gradsusr mailing list submissions to<br>> gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br>> <br>> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br>> http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br>> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br>> gradsusr-request@gradsusr.org<br>> <br>> You can reach the person managing the list at<br>> gradsusr-owner@gradsusr.org<br>> <br>> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>> than "Re: Contents of gradsusr digest..."<br>> <br>> <br>> Today's Topics:<br>> <br>> 1. make a vector wind NCEP data (Rusmawan Suwarman)<br>> 2. Re: make a vector wind NCEP data (Minghua zheng)<br>> 3. Make a Skew-T diagram from WRF output (Ryan Meiszberg)<br>> 4. Re: Make a Skew-T diagram from WRF output (Jeffrey Duda)<br>> 5. Re: make a vector wind NCEP data (saeed bayat)<br>> 6. Re: make a vector wind NCEP data (Rusmawan Suwarman)<br>> <br>> <br>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------<br>> <br>> Message: 1<br>> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:13:27 +0100 (BST)<br>> From: Rusmawan Suwarman <rusmedong@yahoo.co.uk><br>> Subject: [gradsusr] make a vector wind NCEP data<br>> To: grads <gradsusr@gradsusr.org><br>> Message-ID: <975709.48970.qm@web24602.mail.ird.y
ahoo.com><br>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br>> <br>> Dear group,<br>> <br>> I aim to make a wind vector from NCEP netCDF file. The problem is zonal and <br>> meridional wind are divided as uwnd and vwnd nc file. Do you know how to make <br>> it. Is it necessary to make those to be one file? How is it?<br>> Thank you in advance<br>> <br>> Best regards <br>> Rusmawan Suwarman<br>> ---------------------------------------------<br>> Doctoral Students<br>> Department of Life and Environmental Sciences<br>> Graduate School of Sciences and Technology<br>> Kumamoto University<br>> -------------- next part --------------<br>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>> URL: http://gradsusr.org/pipermail/gradsusr/attachments/20110610/5e49f4b9/attachment-0001.html <br>> <br>> ------------------------------<br>> <br>> Message: 2<br>> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:24:53 -0400<br>> From: Minghua zheng <ming.h.zheng@gmail.com><br>> Subject: Re: [gradsusr] make a vector wind NCEP data<br>> To: GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr@gradsusr.org><br>> Message-ID: <BANLkTi=-tuMxqW1C=8cCDV-c4YcMQgbjjg@mail.gmail.com><br>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br>> <br>> Try the following commands:<br>> d uwnd;vwnd<br>> or<br>> d skip(uwnd,2,2);vwnd<br>> Good luck.<br>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Rusmawan Suwarman <rusmedong@yahoo.co.uk>wrote:<br>> <br>> > Dear group,<br>> ><br>> > I aim to make a wind vector from NCEP netCDF file. The problem is zonal and<br>> > meridional wind are divided as uwnd and vwnd nc file. Do you know how to<br>> > make it. Is it necessary to make those to be one file? How is it?<br>> > Thank you in advance<br>> ><br>> > Best regards<br>> ><br>> > Rusmawan Suwarman<br>> > ---------------------------------------------<br>> > Doctoral Students<br>> > Department of Life and Environm
ental Sciences<br>> > Graduate School of Sciences and Technology<br>> > Kumamoto University<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > gradsusr mailing list<br>> > gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br>> > http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br>> ><br>> ><br>> -------------- next part --------------<br>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>> URL: http://gradsusr.org/pipermail/gradsusr/attachments/20110610/015c0d6c/attachment-0001.html <br>> <br>> ------------------------------<br>> <br>> Message: 3<br>> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:01:39 -0400 (EDT)<br>> From: Ryan Meiszberg <rmeiszbe@purdue.edu><br>> Subject: [gradsusr] Make a Skew-T diagram from WRF output<br>> To: gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br>> Message-ID:<br>> <573195859.62825.1307728899246.JavaMail.root@mailhub017.itcs.purdue.edu><br>> <br>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8<br>> <br>> Hello,<br>> <br>> I'm trying to create a Skew-T diagrams using....<br>> <br>> "reinit"^M<br>> "open WRFPRS_2011031712_00.ctl"^M<br>> "set t 2"^M<br>> "set lat 18.275"^M<br>> "set lon -67.189"^M<br>> "set lev 1000 200"^M<br>> "define tt=TMPprs-273"^M<br>> "define qq=SPFHprs*1000"^M<br>> "define vel=mag(UGRDprs,VGRDprs)"^M<br>> "define dir=atan2(VGRDprs,UGRDprs)"^M<br>> *rc=plotskew(tt,qq,vel,dir)^M<br>> rc=plotskew(tt,qq,-1,-1)<br>> <br>> this is followed by http://moe.met.fsu.edu/~rhart/plotskew.gs<br>> <br>> The script seems to run properly for the first half and does plot temperature, but somewhere it is changing the Z dimensions and causes undefined regions for dewpoint and wind. (see output below)<br>> <br>> Data Request Warning: Request beyond file limits<br>> Data Request Warning: Request beyond file limits<br>> Data Request Warning: Request beyond file limits<br>> Data Request Warning: Request beyond file limits<br>> Data Request Warning:
Request beyond file limits<br>> Data Request Warning: Request beyond file limits<br>> Data Request Warning: Request beyond file limits<br>> Data Request Warning: Request beyond file limits<br>> Data Request Warning: Request beyond file limits<br>> Data Request Warning: Request beyond file limits<br>> Cannot contour grid - all undefined values <br>> Drawing temperature sounding.<br>> Drawing dewpoint sounding.<br>> Non-numeric args to numeric operation<br>> Error occurred on line 2237<br>> In file plotskew2_new.gs<br>> Error occurred on line 2252<br>> In file plotskew2_new.gs<br>> Error occurred on line 1058<br>> In file plotskew2_new.gs<br>> Error occurred on line 12<br>> In file plotskew2_new.gs<br>> <br>> <br>> ga-> q dims<br>> Default file number is: 1 <br>> X is fixed Lon = -67.1913 X = 95.0002<br>> Y is fixed Lat = 18.2755 Y = 138<br>> Z is fixed Lev = -9.99e+33 Z = 3.33e+33<br>> T is fixed Time = 13Z17MAR2011 T = 2<br>> <br>> Thanks, <br>> <br>> Ryan Meiszberg<br>> Senoir/Atmospheric Science<br>> Purdue University<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> ------------------------------<br>> <br>> Message: 4<br>> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:22:05 -0500<br>> From: Jeffrey Duda <jdduda@iastate.edu><br>> Subject: Re: [gradsusr] Make a Skew-T diagram from WRF output<br>> To: GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr@gradsusr.org><br>> Message-ID: <BANLkTiksRtJG9apxcYd5wqwozWxC1L1z2g@mail.gmail.com><br>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br>> <br>> Ryan,<br>> I'm not sure what the ^M is at the end of each line of your script, but<br>> check to make sure that is not affecting how it runs. Also, note that the<br>> program asks for snddewp in the form of dewpoint in degrees C. Based on<br>> your variable SPFHprs, which I'm guessing is specific humidity at pressure<br>> levels, will not suffice. You'll have to conve
rt that to degrees Celsius.<br>> If you make these changes and still get errors, note the line numbers of the<br>> script that are mentioned in the errors and send them to me. They will<br>> probably tell you what is going wrong.<br>> <br>> Jeff Duda<br>> <br>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Ryan Meiszberg <rmeiszbe@purdue.edu> wrote:<br>> <br>> > Hello,<br>> ><br>> > I'm trying to create a Skew-T diagrams using....<br>> ><br>> > "reinit"^M<br>> > "open WRFPRS_2011031712_00.ctl"^M<br>> > "set t 2"^M<br>> > "set lat 18.275"^M<br>> > "set lon -67.189"^M<br>> > "set lev 1000 200"^M<br>> > "define tt=TMPprs-273"^M<br>> > "define qq=SPFHprs*1000"^M<br>> > "define vel=mag(UGRDprs,VGRDprs)"^M<br>> > "define dir=atan2(VGRDprs,UGRDprs)"^M<br>> > *rc=plotskew(tt,qq,vel,dir)^M<br>> > rc=plotskew(tt,qq,-1,-1)<br>> ><br>> > this is followed by http://moe.met.fsu.edu/~rhart/plotskew.gs<br>> ><br>> > The script seems to run properly for the first half and does plot<br>> > temperature, but somewhere it is changing the Z dimensions and causes<br>> > undefined regions for dewpoint and wind. (see output below)<br>> ><br>> > Data Request Warning: Request beyond file limits<br>> > Data Request Warning: Request beyond file limits<br>> > Data Request Warning: Request beyond file limits<br>> > Data Request Warning: Request beyond file limits<br>> > Data Request Warning: Request beyond file limits<br>> > Data Request Warning: Request beyond file limits<br>> > Data Request Warning: Request beyond file limits<br>> > Data Request Warning: Request beyond file limits<br>> > Data Request Warning: Request beyond file limits<br>> > Data Request Warning: Request beyond file limits<br>> > Cannot contour grid - all undefined values<br>> > Drawing temperature sounding.<br>> > Drawing dewpoint s
ounding.<br>> > Non-numeric args to numeric operation<br>> > Error occurred on line 2237<br>> > In file plotskew2_new.gs<br>> > Error occurred on line 2252<br>> > In file plotskew2_new.gs<br>> > Error occurred on line 1058<br>> > In file plotskew2_new.gs<br>> > Error occurred on line 12<br>> > In file plotskew2_new.gs<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > ga-> q dims<br>> > Default file number is: 1<br>> > X is fixed Lon = -67.1913 X = 95.0002<br>> > Y is fixed Lat = 18.2755 Y = 138<br>> > Z is fixed Lev = -9.99e+33 Z = 3.33e+33<br>> > T is fixed Time = 13Z17MAR2011 T = 2<br>> ><br>> > Thanks,<br>> ><br>> > Ryan Meiszberg<br>> > Senoir/Atmospheric Science<br>> > Purdue University<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > gradsusr mailing list<br>> > gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br>> > http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br>> ><br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> -- <br>> Jeff Duda<br>> Iowa State University<br>> Meteorology Graduate Student<br>> 3134 Agronomy Hall<br>> www.meteor.iastate.edu/~jdduda<br>> -------------- next part --------------<br>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>> URL: http://gradsusr.org/pipermail/gradsusr/attachments/20110610/dfa7b6f2/attachment-0001.html <br>> <br>> ------------------------------<br>> <br>> Message: 5<br>> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 22:59:57 +0430<br>> From: saeed bayat <saeedbayat7276@gmail.com><br>> Subject: Re: [gradsusr] make a vector wind NCEP data<br>> To: GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr@gradsusr.org><br>> Message-ID: <BANLkTintip-Oi1+_JjiBuYRuWDC2hGoq2Q@mail.gmail.com><br>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br>> <br>> Hi Rusmawan<br>> <br>> First: Open your Uwind data, then define it as a axpression(for instance:<br>> define u=uwnd), then open yo
ur Vwind data as second file and define it like<br>> uwind(define u=uwnd). note that second file should define as second file by<br>> typing: set dfile 2<br>> then: set gxout vector<br>> d or display u;v<br>> <br>> Regards<br>> <br>> Saeed Bayat<br>> M.Sc Student of Climatology<br>> Ferdowsi University of Mashhad(Iran)<br>> saeedbayat7276@gmail.com<br>> <br>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Rusmawan Suwarman <rusmedong@yahoo.co.uk>wrote:<br>> <br>> > Dear group,<br>> ><br>> > I aim to make a wind vector from NCEP netCDF file. The problem is zonal and<br>> > meridional wind are divided as uwnd and vwnd nc file. Do you know how to<br>> > make it. Is it necessary to make those to be one file? How is it?<br>> > Thank you in advance<br>> ><br>> > Best regards<br>> ><br>> > Rusmawan Suwarman<br>> > ---------------------------------------------<br>> > Doctoral Students<br>> > Department of Life and Environmental Sciences<br>> > Graduate School of Sciences and Technology<br>> > Kumamoto University<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > gradsusr mailing list<br>> > gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br>> > http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br>> ><br>> ><br>> -------------- next part --------------<br>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>> URL: http://gradsusr.org/pipermail/gradsusr/attachments/20110610/c563a356/attachment-0001.html <br>> <br>> ------------------------------<br>> <br>> Message: 6<br>> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:06:04 +0100 (BST)<br>> From: Rusmawan Suwarman <rusmedong@yahoo.co.uk><br>> Subject: Re: [gradsusr] make a vector wind NCEP data<br>> To: GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr@gradsusr.org><br>> Message-ID: <743815.6312.qm@web24606.mail.ird.yahoo.com><br>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br>> <br>> Hi Saeed and Zhen
g<br>> It is work, thank you very much :)<br>> <br>> best regardsRusmawan Suwarman<br>> ---------------------------------------------<br>> Doctoral Students<br>> Department of Life and Environmental Sciences<br>> Graduate School of Sciences and Technology<br>> Kumamoto University<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> ________________________________<br>> From: saeed bayat <saeedbayat7276@gmail.com><br>> To: GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr@gradsusr.org><br>> Sent: Sat, 11 June, 2011 3:29:57<br>> Subject: Re: [gradsusr] make a vector wind NCEP data<br>> <br>> Hi Rusmawan<br>> <br>> First: Open your Uwind data, then define it as a axpression(for instance: define <br>> u=uwnd), then open your Vwind data as second file and define it like <br>> uwind(define u=uwnd). note that second file should define as second file by <br>> typing: set dfile 2<br>> then: set gxout vector<br>> d or display u;v<br>> <br>> Regards<br>> <br>> Saeed Bayat<br>> M.Sc Student of Climatology<br>> Ferdowsi University of Mashhad(Iran)<br>> saeedbayat7276@gmail.com<br>> <br>> <br>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Rusmawan Suwarman <rusmedong@yahoo.co.uk> <br>> wrote:<br>> <br>> Dear group,<br>> ><br>> ><br>> >I aim to make a wind vector from NCEP netCDF file. The problem is zonal and <br>> >meridional wind are divided as uwnd and vwnd nc file. Do you know how to make <br>> >it. Is it necessary to make those to be one file? How is it?<br>> >Thank you in advance<br>> ><br>> ><br>> >Best regards <br>> > Rusmawan Suwarman<br>> >---------------------------------------------<br>> >Doctoral Students<br>> >Department of Life and Environmental Sciences<br>> >Graduate School of Sciences and Technology<br>> >Kumamoto University<br>> ><br>> ><br>> >_______________________________________________<br>> >gradsusr mailing list
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