[ncl-talk] NCL Version 6.3.0 now available

[Mary Haley]

The NCL team is pleased to announce the release of NCL version 6.3.0.

Of particular note, this version includes:

   - Close to 30 new functions, including (but not limited to):
      - Butterworth bandpass filter
      - Calculation of potential vorticity and temperature
      - K-means clustering via the Hartigan and Wong AS-136 algorithm
      - Vertical interpolation routine for WRF ARW variables
      - "Regular expression" (regex) string matching
      - Getting the unique values in an array
      - Routines for coloring streamlines based on a scalar field
      (contribution from Alan Brammer, UAlbany)


   - Improvements to NCL's handling of advanced file structures
   (NetCDF-4 and HDF5 groups, for example)

   - Improvements and updates to the GRIB 1/2 readers

   - Speed-up for multiple calls to the "fbinrecread
   <http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/fbinrecread.shtml>"
   function

   - More options on the appearance of polyline and polygons overlaid on
   maps

   - Many bug fixes

Pre-compiled binaries are provided for several flavors of Linux and MacOS
(including Yosemite), and for X/Cygwin.

For full details, please see:

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

If you have any questions about this release, please post them here.

If you have installation questions or problems, please email them to
ncl-install at ucar.edu (you must subscribe
<http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-install> first).

Mary Haley (on behalf of the NCL team)
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