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On 4/26/2018 3:49 PM, James L. Kinter Iii wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear All – Thanks to several of you who are
offering praise and gratitude for GrADS. I would like to add
COLA’s thanks to Brian and Jennifer. The original idea of
putting together analysis and display of geo-registered data,
with defaults suitable for atmospheric science and physical
oceanography research and education, was a simple one, but, as
it turned out, extremely powerful. The notion of making that
package of code available to anybody, free of charge, and
supporting it with new features, copious and useful
documentation, and responses to user inquiries was unheard of
two decades ago, but that also turns out to have been a
powerful concept. Finally, evolving a code over a period of so
many years, mostly in a backward compatible way, is something
that normally takes an entire corporation to pull off. Brian
started out doing it on his own, and after Jennifer joined
COLA, they did it with a team of 2, along with debugging help
and suggestions for improvement from all the users. The large
number of users, the large number of figures on web pages and
in scholarly journals, and the small number of lines of code
are all testaments to the success and staying power of GrADS,
which are in turn completely due to the ingenuity, dedication
and collegiality of two people. For those of us who remember
writing Fortran programs to analyze meteorological data and
other Fortran programs to display the results of that
analysis, the introduction of GrADS to our community was truly
a quiet revolution that changed the way we did our work. While
we often list GrADS among the contributions that COLA has made
to the field, in truth, it is Brian and Jennifer who get all
the credit. Thanks to you both. – Jim
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Jim Kinter<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Director, Center for
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<p class="MsoNormal">Chair, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic
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Professor, Climate Dynamics<br>
284 Research Hall, Mail Stop 6C5<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org"><gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org></a> on behalf of Jeff
Duda <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jeffduda319@gmail.com"><jeffduda319@gmail.com></a><br>
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<b>Date: </b>Thursday, April 26, 2018 at 2:11 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>GrADS Users Forum
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org"><gradsusr@gradsusr.org></a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [gradsusr] GrADS Milestones<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">As a user since
I started grad school in 2009, I remain a huge fan of GrADS.
Even though I now use a lot of Python and matplotlib for
plotting, GrADS still produces at least as high quality, if
not higher quality, geographic plots than any other graphics
software I have seen over the past 9 years, and is my first
pick for plotting meteorological graphics. I will continue
to use it, but am sad to see the support cease. Hopefully it
will continue to be useful for years to come. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Thanks to
Jennifer and the other support staff who kept GrADS going
over all these years.<o:p></o:p></p>
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26, 2018 at 9:41 AM, John Ciolek <<a
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Jennifer, Brian, and the rest of your team for what
you have done with GrADS! I hope you realize how
much the atmospheric science community appreciates
your effort and outstanding support. I’m sure you
will hear from many echoing that feeling as you truly
deserve it. <o:p></o:p></p>
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at 7:30 AM, Jennifer M Adams <<a
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<p class="MsoNormal"
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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.
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