[ncl-talk] Are recent versions of contributed.ncl backward-compatible?

[Daniel Barandiaran - NOAA Affiliate]

Our work machine here at CPC is running ncl-6.1.2. I requested an update
and got turned down by the IT folks; their reason had something to do with
old netCDF packages and an eventual upgrade of our Linux environment, at
which time it would be easier to upgrade. In the meantime I tried to unpack
the latest binaries into my personal work directory and set paths
appropriately, but sure enough there were some serious problems, like not
being able to read variables out of a GRIB file. I have therefore mostly
resigned myself to working with 6.1.2, but this morning I thought that a
lot of the functions I am pining for reside in contributed.ncl, so I was
wondering if I could point to the contributed.ncl that came with 6.3.0
while still running 6.1.2? And what about the ESMF regridding, could I
point to the ESMF_regridding.ncl script and use those functions as well?

-- 
Danny Barandiaran, Ph.D.
Contract Scientist-INNOVIM
Climate Prediction Center/NCEP/NWS, W/NP5
National Center for Weather and Climate Prediction
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