Re: NCL Version 6.0.0 now available

From: Mary Haley <haley_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Thu Jun 02 2011 - 14:00:54 MDT

Hi Robert,

We list all the keywords and their documentation at:

http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Manuals/Ref_Manual/NclKeywords.shtml

Most of them appear to have documentation, except for "group". I think this is not ready for use yet, but Dave or Wei will have to jump in here.

--Mary

On Jun 2, 2011, at 1:22 AM, Robert Schuster wrote:

> Hello Mary,
>
> I would like to add the new Keywords to the syntax checker of my Netbeans Plugin (http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/38897).
> Is there already a documentation of the usage of the new keywords? Especially for the group keyword?
>
> Robert
>
> Am 30.05.2011 um 16:22 schrieb Mary Haley:
>
>>
>> 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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