* Using OpenGrADS [#fdf9f2c5] - For me, only for calculation of stream function and velocity potential... - Official site: http://opengrads.org Contents #contents ** Installation [#u9907509] All examples are for grads-1.9 on Linux-PC, located at ~/GrADS. + Save the original grads directory at somewhere else (just in case). + Get appropriate executables from [[here:http://sourceforge.net/projects/opengrads/files/grads1/grads-1.9.0-rc1-bin-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz/download]], and copy the contents in bin directory to ~/GrADS/bin (overwrite them). + Get appropriate extensions from [[here:http://sourceforge.net/projects/opengrads/files/extensions/grads-1.9.0-rc1-gex-r2-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz/download]], and copy the contents in bin directory to ~/GrADS/bin (there should be no file with same name). + Set environmental variables as follows:~ GAUDXT=$HOME/GrADS/bin/gex/udxt~ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/GrADS/bin/gex:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH ** Drawing stream function [#ba64e112] $ gradsnc # be sure the opengrads command is executed > open pgb.ctl # example > d fish_psi(ugrdprs,vgrdprs) It's usual to shift the field to its global average being a zero. > a=fish_psi(ugrdprs,vgrdprs) > d a-aave(a,global)