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Dear Brian and Jennifer,<br>
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I was at the University of Maryland when GrADS was invented by Brian
Doty. I remember two small contributions I made during that time.
Originally, the default time interval was 3 years for certain record
lengths. I asked Brian to change that to either 1 or 5, as 3 was
not nearly as easy to understand. He changed it instantly. Another
time, I was trying to plot Fig. 1 of
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/WinterWarming.pdf">http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/WinterWarming.pdf</a> , which
involved 13 small maps. But the program kept crashing. I asked
Brian about it, and it turns out he never thought someone would make
such a large output file, and he had a limit set for a buffer. He
said, "Try it now," and by the time I had walked down the hall to my
office and tried it again, it had been changed. <br>
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So thanks for this wonderful program, which has allowed me and
scientists around the world to easily plot observations and model
output in an intuitive way, with great looking figures and maps. I
can still instantly identify a GrADS figure when I see it in a talk
or paper. And I look forward to continuing to use it for a long
time to come.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On 4/26/2018 2:49 PM, Pavel Kishcha wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 4:30 PM,
Jennifer M Adams <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear All,<br>
The time has come to announce some changes at COLA that will
affect all of us: the funding that supports GrADS has come
to an end. Brian Doty will be retiring at the end of the
summer, and I will be moving to NASA/GSFC to work in the
Goddard Earth Sciences (GES) Data and Information Services
Center (DISC). Both of us will continue to be active GrADS
users, and our plan is to move the source code to GitHub
where it will become a more traditional open source project.
Our development and support of GrADS going forward will be a
volunteer effort, but I sincerely hope you will not
interpret this news as a reason to stop using GrADS. We feel
that our recent changes to GrADS make it a flexible and
extendable tool with a stable core and the necessary hooks
for further customization by ambitious users. COLA will
continue to host this forum, and I will remain as the
moderator and frequent contributor. I promise to do what I
can to ensure that GrADS remains relevant, useful, and fast.
<br>
—Jennifer<br>
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Jennifer Miletta Adams<br>
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)<br>
George Mason University<br>
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