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

[Daniel Barandiaran - NOAA Affiliate]

It seems a little strange to me as well, but the bottom line is that I
could open the GRIB file no problem using the 6.1.2 installed on our
server, but could not using my test-install of 6.3.0. Paths in our machine
are preset, and I'm not even sure exactly where they all point to. In order
to ensure I was running the test install I put an alias in my .bashrc, and
I made sure to set $NCAR_ROOT to point to the test install as well.

On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Guido Cioni <guidocioni at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Daniel,
> I’m sure that someone will be more useful than me but…aren’t GRIB library
> supposed to be independent from NCL?
> Maybe there is something wrong on GRIB API and not on the installation of
> NCL, or maybe you didn’t set the GRIB_API path properly? Just saying, don’t
> know whether it is relevant or not :)
>
> Cheers
>
> Il giorno 02 feb 2017, alle ore 19:13, Daniel Barandiaran - NOAA Affiliate
> <daniel.barandiaran at noaa.gov> ha scritto:
>
> 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?
>
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> 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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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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