The NCL team is pleased to announce the official release of NCL
version 6.0.0.
This release contains bug fixes that we found in 6.0.0-beta testing,
and some new and updated functions.
Here's what's available in 6.0.0 (for a list of what's new since 6.0.0-
beta, since the link below):
- Users can now create variables larger than 2 gigabytes (up to 4
gigabytes) in size on 64-bit systems.
- The default missing values have been changed to be more in line
with NetCDF's missing values.
- The NCL "byte" type is now a signed byte (it was unsigned previous
to this release), and there's now a "ubyte" (unsigned byte) type.
- Eight new color tables were contributed by Emilie Vanvyve of NCAR.
- Single PNG files no longer have "000001." as part of the file name.
- You can now use NCL's "delete" procedure to delete multiple
variables. This is part of an overhaul of the "list" type, which
is currently in alpha testing.
- There is some support for reading HDF5 files. This is in alpha
testing.
- There are some new and updated functions. Here are the more
significant ones:
cd_calendar / cd_inv_calendar
These functions are meant to be replacements for ut_calendar
and ut_inv_calendar. They support more calendar options, and
are more robust.
wrf_user_list_times
wrf_user_getvar
wrf_user_ij_to_ll
wrf_user_ll_to_ij
These functions have been updated to allow the first
argument to be either a file opened with addfile, or a list
of files opened with addfiles.
For full details on this new version with links to the new features,
see:
http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/current_release.shtml
--Mary Haley, on behalf of the NCL team
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