NCL Version 6.2.0 now available

The NCL team is pleased to announce the release of NCL version 6.2.0.

This release contains quite a few new features, graphical improvements,
bug fixes, a ton of new color tables.

For full details, see:

   http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/current_release.shtml

To download, visit:

   http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/

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Of particular note in this version:

 - Raster contouring now supports transparency.

   If you are drawing raster contours over maps and have missing values
   in your data, you may now see gray-filled missing value areas instead of
   white-filled areas. This is not a bug. :-)

   This is because the missing value areas are now transparent, and hence
   any gray-filled land that was underneath the missing value areas will now
   be visible. If this is undesired, set:

   res@cnMissingValFillColor = “white”

 - Many NetCDF-4 read/write bugs were fixed (this is in reference to the
   NetCDF-4 “new” format, and not the NetCDF-4 “classic” format).
 
 - Significant speed-up for polyline and polygon drawing code, and raster contouring.

 - Improvements to the “thin line” graphical issue.

   Some people reported seeing thin lines showing up in their color-filled
   plots. This is due to a cairo bug, which we’ve reported to the cairo folks.
   Meanwhile, we’ve made some improvements to the internal fill code to
   improve this situation.

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If you have any questions, problems, or concerns about this release, please email
them to ncl-talk@ucar.edu. For installation questions and problems, send email to
ncl-install@ucar.edu.

--Mary Haley, on behalf of the NCL team

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Received on Wed Apr 2 20:54:19 2014