Visualizing data in Cubed-Sphere grid: Difference between revisions

Make the in progress quite visible. A few edits to the GrADS section
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== GrAds ==


To  use GRADS to display cube-sphere grid data in a NetCDF file, the path should be in the PATH environment:
== GrADS ==
 
To  use GrADS to display cube-sphere grid data in a NetCDF file, the path should be in the PATH environment:
/discover/nobackup/projects/gmao/share/dasilva/opengrads/Contents/grads
/discover/nobackup/projects/gmao/share/dasilva/opengrads/Contents/grads


Then the users can follow the steps:
Then the users can follow the steps. First, we assume a version of GEOS-5 is available.
1) run src/GMAO_Shared/GEOS_Util/plots/configure. This will produce a .quickplotrc in that directory
# run $ESMADIR/src/GMAO_Shared/GEOS_Util/plots/configure. This will produce a .quickplotrc in that directory
2) source .quickplotrc
# source $ESMADIR/src/GMAO_Shared/GEOS_Util/plots/.quickplotrc
3) run grads.  
# run grads
4) run command dc to plot the cube-sphere grid NetCDF file. Users can get help by just run dc without any argument.
# sdfopen file.nc4
# run command <tt>dc</tt> to plot the cube-sphere grid NetCDF file. Users can get help by just run dc without any argument.