[ncl-talk] NCL Version 6.2.1 now available

[Mary Haley]

The NCL team is pleased to announce the release of NCL version 6.2.1.

This release is mostly a bug fix release for version 6.2.0.

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:


   - We fixed a serious bug where assigning a variable as an attribute of
   another variable caused the original variable's "_FillValue" attribute
   to be modified.

   - Possible backwards incompatibility for "isfilepresent": this function
   has been implemented the way it was originally intended: to check for the
   existence of a supported file (NetCDF, GRIB, HDF, etc) before trying to
   open it with addfile.

   To check for the existence of any file, regardless of what kind it is,
   use the new "fileexists" function.

   Older NCL scripts may now fail if you are using "isfilepresent" to check
   for the existence of any file. Simply change this call to "fileexists"
   and it should work.

A few other bugs and new features have been implemented. See the above link
for more information.

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

--Mary Haley, on behalf of the NCL team
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