Subject: Announcement: NAWIPS 5.9 now available
From: Robert Rozumalski
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 10:50:48 -0600


Greetings All, 

Due to my WRF development efforts has been more than 1 year since 
the last STRC NAWIPS release to for many of you this is a
welcomed announcement.  

NAWIPS version 5.9 is now available on the SOO/STRC ftp server
in the nawips directory. There have been many enhancements and
bug fixes since the last release, including:


1. The GEMPAK speedPatch has been added, which results in significantly 
   enhanced performance, particularly on faster machines where the 
   processing time is negligible compared to the communication time. A

   STRC Note: Performance improvement is significant!! My tests showed
              a 20X performance increase when creating gif images.
              Yes, 2000% faster.

2. New GRIB2 Program Available

  A new program, GDGRIB2, is available that converts GEMPAK grids to 
  GRIB edition 2 format. GDGRIB2 converts an existing GEMPAK grid or 
  writes out any grid diagnostic to the GRIB2 file. In addition, a horizontal 
  interpolation is invoked, when necessary, to store the GRIB2 formatted data 
  points on any user specified grid. For information on available parameters 
  and example usage, type "help gdgrib2" in any GEMPAK program. 

For more information on what's new see:

  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/gempak/GEMPAK5.9/whats_new.html#5.9.1

To install:

       log on to the machine as user "gempak" or whatever name you are
        using for nawips.

        % cd $NAWIPS/..     ( probably /usr1 )

        If nawips is a directory then:
          % mv nawips nawips57d  (or nawips57c, etc.)

        If nawips is a link
          % rm -f nawips

        Now download the following files from the soostrc
        ftp server in the nawips directory:

        a. nawips59_soostrc.tgz
        b. nawips59_binary_linux.tgz

        Then unpack:

        % tar -xzvf nawips59_soostrc.tgz
        % tar -xzvf nawips59_binary_linux.tgz
        % ln -s nawips59 nawips

        Make sure the following lines are in each user's .cshrc or
        Common.cshrc files (somewhere in the user's login files):
           setenv NAWIPS /usr1/nawips

           #
           #  Source GEMPAK/NAWIPS applications.
           #
           if ( -e $NAWIPS/Nawips.cshrc ) source $NAWIPS/Nawips.cshrc

        The above lines will make sure all the environment variables
        are correctly set.

        Log out and back in

That's it - painless, I hope.

Call me for help. - Bob