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The Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) is an interactive desktop tool that is used for easy access, manipulation, and visualization of earth science data. GrADS has two data models for handling gridded and station data. GrADS supports many data file formats, including binary (stream or science data. GrADS has two data models for handling gridded and station data. GrADS supports many data file formats, including binary (stream or sequential), GRIB (version 1 and 2), NetCDF, HDF (version 4 and 5), and BUFR (for station data). GrADS has been implemented worldwide on a variety of commonly used operating systems and is freely distributed over the Internet.
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The Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) is an interactive desktop tool that is used for easy access, manipulation, and visualization of earth science data. GrADS has two data models for handling gridded and station data. GrADS supports many data file formats, including binary (stream or science data. GrADS has two data models for handling gridded and station data. GrADS supports many data file formats, including binary (stream or sequential), GRIB2, NetCDF, and HDF5. GrADS has been implemented worldwide on a variety of commonly used operating systems and is freely distributed over the Internet.
  
 
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The ''grads'' executable must be run in the batch mode with the ''-b'' switch.
 
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* Validated 4/5/2018

Latest revision as of 20:26, 24 August 2022

Description

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The Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) is an interactive desktop tool that is used for easy access, manipulation, and visualization of earth science data. GrADS has two data models for handling gridded and station data. GrADS supports many data file formats, including binary (stream or science data. GrADS has two data models for handling gridded and station data. GrADS supports many data file formats, including binary (stream or sequential), GRIB2, NetCDF, and HDF5. GrADS has been implemented worldwide on a variety of commonly used operating systems and is freely distributed over the Internet.

Required Modules

Serial

  • grads

The grads executable must be run in the batch mode with the -b switch.

System Variables

  • HPC_GRADS_DIR





Validation

  • Validated 4/5/2018