<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>There is no variable 'z' in the ctl file, but there is 'zg'. 'd zg' should display geopotential height.<br><br><hr id="zwchr"><b>From: </b>"brown wrap" <gramos@yahoo.com><br><b>To: </b>"Muhammad Yunus Ahmad Mazuki" <ukm.yunus@gmail.com>, "GrADS Users Forum" <gradsusr@gradsusr.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, October 7, 2013 1:59:17 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [gradsusr] Do the GrADS Examples work?<br><br><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>Here is the output of what I tried. Right off it seems to fail:</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) Version 2.0.a9<br>Copyright (c) 1988-2010 by Brian Doty and the<br>Institute for Global Environment and Society (IGES)<br>GrADS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY<br>See file COPYRIGHT for more information<br><br>Config: v2.0.a9 little-endian readline printim grib2 netcdf hdf4-sds hdf5 opendap-grids geotiff shapefile<br>Issue 'q config' command for more detailed
configuration information<br>Landscape mode? ('n' for portrait): n<br>GX Package Initialization: Size = 8.5 11 <br>ga-> open model.ctl<br>Scanning description file: model.ctl<br>Data file model.grb is open as file 1<br>LON set to 0 360 <br>LAT set to -90 90 <br>LEV set to 1000 1000 <br>Time values set: 1987:1:1:0 1987:1:1:0 <br>E set to 1 1 <br>ga-> query file<br>File 1 : "Sample Model Data for lats4d Tutorial"<br> Descriptor: model.ctl<br> Binary: model.grb<br> Type = Gridded<br> Xsize = 72 Ysize = 46 Zsize = 7 Tsize = 5 Esize = 1<br> Number of Variables = 8<br> ps 0 1 Surface pressure [hPa]<br> ua 7 33 Eastward wind [m/s]<br> va 7 34 Northward wind [m/s]<br> zg 7 7 Geopotential height [m]<br>
ta 7 11 Air Temperature [K]<br> hus 7 51 Specific humidity [kg/kg]<br> ts 0 11 Surface (2m) air temperature [K]<br> pr 0 59 Total precipitation rate [kg/(m^2*s)]<br>ga-> d ps<br>Contouring: 500 to 1000 interval 50 <br>ga-> d ps<br>Contouring: 500 to 1000 interval 50 <br>ga-> clear<br>ga-> set lon -90<br>LON set to -90 -90 <br>ga-> set lat 40<br>LAT set to 42 42 <br>ga-> set lev 500<br>LEV set to 500 500 <br>ga-> set t 1<br>Time values set: 1987:1:1:0 1987:1:1:0 <br>ga-> d z<br>Syntax Error: Invalid Operand <br> 'z' not a variable or function name<br> Error ocurred at column 1<br>DISPLAY error: Invalid expression <br> Expression = z<br>ga-> <br><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new
york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span></span></div><div> </div><div style="font-style:;"><br>brownwrap.blogspot.com</div><div style="color:;font-size:13px;font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;"><br></div><div style="color:;font-size:13px;font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;">brownwraps-linuxfromscratch.blogspot.com/</div><div style="color:;font-size:13px;font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;"><br></div><div style="color:;font-size:13px;font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;"><br></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Muhammad Yunus Ahmad Mazuki <ukm.yunus@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> brown wrap <gramos@yahoo.com>; GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr@gradsusr.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, October 5, 2013 6:51 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [gradsusr] Do the GrADS Examples work?<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv1960913723"><div><div dir="ltr">If you mean the tutorial, yes it does work. If you mean other example online, those example might be openGrADS example, which is based on GrADS itself. Therefore it the tutorial is not working, and you
are absolutely sure you can't open the tutorial file itself, and not mistaking the path or anything, I would say you have a faulty installation.<br clear="none">
</div><div class="yiv1960913723gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv1960913723gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 9:41 AM, brown wrap <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="mailto:gramos@yahoo.com">gramos@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv1960913723gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<span>I have installed GrADS for a user, and have been going through the examples. Not all of them work. I am trying to determine if I have a faulty installation, or if some of the examples are broken. Thanks.</span></div>
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