<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">That bug reared its ugly head shortly after the release of 2.0.2, and I decided that a one-line fix was not enough to warrant a new version and re-release. Here is the patch (from the diff output between gasdf.c in versions 2.0.2 and 2.1.a1)<div><div><br></div><div>1897a1897</div><div>> if (!strncasecmp(attr->value, "hPa", 3)) match=1;</div></div><div><br></div><div>--Jennifer</div><div><br><div><div>On Jun 18, 2014, at 4:23 PM, Arlindo da Silva wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Jennifer,<div><br></div><div> After a month long warning I changed today the defult grads version at our office from 2.0.1.oga.1 to 2.0.2.oga.1 and the transition didn't go well. Our pressure level files have the following level coordinate variable:</div>
<div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(2, 32, 179); "><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>double lev(lev) ;</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(2, 32, 179); "><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>lev:long_name = "vertical level" ;</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(2, 32, 179); "><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>lev:units = "hPa" ;</div><div><br></div><div>However, when I open this file in grads 2.0.2 I get this message:</div>
<div><br></div><div>ga-> sdfopen <span style="color:rgb(83,48,225);font-family:Monaco;font-size:14px">GEOS.fp.fcst.inst3_3d_asm_Np.20140612_12+20140616_0900.V01.nc4</span></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(83, 48, 225); ">
Scanning self-describing file: GEOS.fp.fcst.inst3_3d_asm_Np.20140612_12+20140616_0900.V01.nc4</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(83, 48, 225); ">SDF file GEOS.fp.fcst.inst3_3d_asm_Np.20140612_12+20140616_0900.V01.nc4 is open as file 1</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(83, 48, 225); ">LON set to 0 360 </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(83, 48, 225); ">LAT set to -90 90 </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(83, 48, 225); ">LEV set to 10 10 </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(83, 48, 225); ">Time values set: 2014:6:16:9 2014:6:16:9 </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(83, 48, 225); ">E set to 1 1 </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(213, 59, 211); ">Notice: Z coordinate pressure values have been converted from Pa to mb</div></div><div><br></div><div>And nothing works because grads mistakenly thinks that "hPa" is "Pa" and messes up the vertical coordinate system. This problen makes 2.0.2 unusable for us.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I verified that this problem has been fixed in 2.1.a2. While I could make 2.1.a2 the default, it would be a good idea to have the latest stable release as a fallback. Do you happen to have a (source code) patch for this unit conversion problem in 2.0.2?</div>
<div><br></div><div> Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div> Arlindo</div><div><br></div>-- <br><font face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif" size="6" color="#006600"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"></span><span></span><span></span>Arlindo da Silva</font><br>
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