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  • Version 1.92 Release Notes (7/24/2008: 3364 users)
    Focused on:
    1. Handling the npacocn (North Pacific Ocean) sector which contains the probabilistic hurricane wind product
    2. Handling the "hazard" aka "wwa" grids
    3. Adjust the operational status of sky, qpf, and snow amount

  • Version 1.91 Release Notes (4/1/2008: 3054 users)
    Focused on:
    1. Handling the effective change to the encoding of Air Quality data
    2. Adding template 4.6 (precentile at a specific point in time)
    3. Providing support for Alaska RTMA
    4. Handling the change in the NDFD Puerto Rico grid definition

  • Version 1.90 Release Notes (10/31/2007: 2780 users)
    Focused on:
    1. Fixing some bugs in dwmllib.

  • Version 1.89 Release Notes (10/22/2007: 2850 users)
    Focused on:
    1. Fixing the mislabeling of Prob Temp above Avg.
    2. Fixing the dropped unit of seconds from the parse time procedure.
    3. Update to dwmllib.

  • Version 1.88 Release Notes (10/18/2007: 2889 users)
    Focused on:
    1. support for the 12 new CPC products which were added to the NDFD

  • Version 1.87 Release Notes (9/20/2007: 2903 users)
    Focused on:
    1. Reconfiguring Wind Gust
    2. Deal with new encoding details of Prob of Severe Thunderstorms

  • Version 1.86 Release Notes (5/31/2007: 2180 users)
    Focused on:
    1. Reconfiguring smoke, wave height, and prob trop cyc winds
    2. Adding RTMA grids
    3. expanding gribcut
    4. Removing the FORTRAN dependence

  • Version 1.85 Release Notes (2/27/2007: 1984 users)
    Focused on:
    1. Adding SPC grids
    2. Upgrade to g2clib and emapf libraries
    3. Adjustments to code for daylight savings

  • Version 1.84 Release Notes (11/3/2006: 1752 users)
    Focused on:
    1. Adding support for experimental Hawaii QPF
    2. bug fixes and modifications to compilation method

  • Version 1.83a Release Notes (9/27/2006: 1679 users)
    Focused on:
    1. Announcing the 11/2/2006 Technical Workshop
    2. QPF is becomming available experimentally for Hawaii on 11/1/2006.

  • Version 1.83 Release Notes (9/14/2006: 1642 users)
    Focused on:
    1. Providing the same capability for image draws in tkdegrib which was available in 1.80.

  • Version 1.82 Release Notes (9/8/2006: 1632 users)
    Focused on:
    1. Bug fixes that appeared as a result of 9/6 NDFD data split.

  • Version 1.81 Release Notes (8/31/2006: 1588 users)
    Focused on:
    1. Adding support for splitting the NDFD into 2 files (a day 1 to 3 and a day 4 to 7).

  • Version 1.80 Release Notes (7/17/2006: 1225 users)
    Focused on:
    1. Adding support for the pwind product and the nhemi sector

  • Version 1.79 Release Notes (5/22/2006: 1120 users)
    Focused on:
    1. Providing degrib with DWML generating capability
    2. Adding "psurge" support

  • Version 1.77 Release Notes (3/15/2006: 1045 users)
    Focused on:
    1. Reconfiguring NDFD Apparent Temperature and RH
    2. Updates to the NCEP tables

  • Version 1.76a Release Notes (2/24/2006: 1029 users)
    Focused on:
    1. Correction to ndfd.ini to grab NDGD rhm , pop06, pop12 for day 4-7 from the correct place.

  • Version 1.76 Release Notes (2/21/2006: 1036 users)
    Focused on:
    1. Infrastructure changes for XML Probes
    2. Overwrite issues with -NetCDF 2,3
    3. Better grid diagnostic statistics (-Freq)
    4. Updated meta tables

  • Version 1.75 Release Notes (12/7/2005: 944 users)
    Focused on:
    1. reconfiguring NDFD variables
    2. getting 64 bit compliant code
    3. updating web.tcl
    4. adding better ensemble support (both with GRIB2 template 4.12, and paying attention to the ensemble section of the GRIB1 PDS).

  • Version 1.74 Release Notes (10/29/2005: 892 users)
    Focused on:
    1. adjusting the custom sector to 20 x 20
    2. introducing 3 new NDGD variables
    3. several NetCDF bugs
    4. handling time from before 1970

  • Version 1.73 Release Notes (10/14/2005: 877 users)
    Focused on:
    1. making the NetCDF more "CF" compliant
    2. adding the ability to convert to ESRI ASCII grids
    3. some fixes for Gridded MOS changes
    4. the start of the -C -Map option

  • Version 1.72 Release Notes (6/20/2005: 765 users)
    modified configuration for ds.rhm.bin and ds.apt.bin

  • Version 1.71 Release Notes (6/15/2005: 772 users)
    Added colortables for RH and ApparentT

  • Version 1.70 Release Notes (6/15/2005: 772 users)
    Focused on:
    1. Reconfiguration of elements for Hawaii and PR
    2. Addition of ApparentT and RH
    3. Ability to download Gridded MOS
    4. Makefiles for more platforms

  • Version 1.68 Release Notes (3/30/2005: 696 users)
    Focused on:
    1. handling Gridded MOS
    2. handling Probabilistic Hurricane Wind fields
    3. Upgrade to 1.0.2 of NCEP's GRIB2 library (C version)
    4. Various bug fixes

  • Version 1.67 Release Notes (3/15/2005: 673 users)
    Focused on:
    1. Configuring Temperature, Dew Point, and Weather to "operational" status
    2. Various bug fixes

  • Version 1.65 Release Notes (1/27/2005: 650 users)
    Focused on:
    1. Getting multiple NetCDF messages in the same file.
    2. Enhancing the -PntFile option.
    3. Adding a -Sector option.
    4. Improving the -Shp (and -Shp2) options
    5. Enhancing the TDLPack support

  • Version 1.63 Release Notes (11/30/2004: 595 users)
    Focused on:
    1. variables going "operational".
    2. NDFD simple weather key (Version 4).
    3. Some support for tdlpack gridded messages.

  • Version 1.61a Release Notes (11/18/2004: 586 users)
    Focused on:
    1. Announcing the new degrib web site.

  • Version 1.61 Release Notes (8/30/2004: 489 users)
    Focused on:
    1. Being able to support image generation for the Pacific Region Sectors (Hawaii, Guam).

  • Version 1.60 Release Notes (8/24/2004: 488 users)
    Focused on:
    1. The NDGD.
    2. The Pacific Region Sectors (Hawaii, Guam)
    3. Ability to handle some changes to the weather keys.

  • Version 1.53 Release Notes (6/18/2004: 434 users)
    Focused on:
    1. The "user defined sub-grid" web service. See the user defined GRIB homepage at http://weather.gov/ndfd/select_grib.php. Also see http://products.weather.gov/viewliste.php?page=4 .

  • Version 1.51 Release Notes (5/18/2004: 415 users)
    Focused on:
    1. Some bugs with GRIB2 bitmaps (GRIB1 bitmaps were fine). Since NDFD does not use bitmaps, this was mainly to help AWIPS decode NCEP GRIB2 model files.

  • Version 1.50 Release Notes (5/7/2004: 398 users)
    Focused on:
    1. The ability to write NetCDF files.
    2. A bug fix "writeshp.c::gribWriteShp(): incorrect computation of fieldLen1 and fieldLen2."
    3. For the specific case of lat/lon grids which have the left border 1 grid cell away from the right border, now allow interpolation outside the grid.

  • Version 1.48b Release Notes (5/5/2004: 396 users)
    Update to anouncement of NDFD Technical Workshop conference.

  • Version 1.48a Release Notes (5/5/2004: 396 users)
    Anounced NDFD Technical Workshop conference: June 24th from 8:00 am till noon.

  • Version 1.48 Release Notes (4/1/2004: 362 users)
    Focused on:
    1. Bug: Accidently vertically flipping lat/lon grids.
    2. Bug: Not completing grib1tab.c => problems with european GRIB1 messages.
    3. Default naming style.
    4. Cosmetic GUI fixes.
    5. Surface naming (allowing volumes between 2 surfaces)

  • Version 1.47 Release Notes (3/17/2004: 347 users)
    Focused on:
    1. Bug: Reported by "chrism": had accidently made probe ignore the user labels, and instead always used "(gridX, gridY, lat, lon)".

  • Version 1.46 Release Notes (3/16/2004: 343 users)
    Focused on:
    1. Being able to handle Alaska grids.
    2. Added better handling for surfaces.
    3. Some GRIB1 issues.

  • Version 1.44 Release Notes (2/17/2004: 326 users)
    Focused on:
    1. Being able to convert a subgrid of the original grid back to GRIB2.
    2. Being able to interact with stdin/stdout.

      3. (The combination could allow someone to develop web services based on degrib and GRIB2.)

  • Version 1.42 Release Notes (1/23/2004: 298 users)
    Focused on:
    1. RUC / ETA meta data sets (changed focus to include forecast level).
    2. Updated NDFD Weather codes
    3. ESRI tutorial + Legends.

  • Version 1.40 Release Notes (12/24/2003: 270 users)
    Focused on:
    1. Alerting people to shift in sector grids.
    2. Introducing handling of NCEP's GRIB2 compression schemes.
    3. Handling of non-projected grids.
    4. Handling of dateline issue in ESRI GIS.

  • Version 1.31 Release Notes (10/24/2003: 214 users)
    Focused on:
    1. Big Polygon linux Bug fix.
    2. Attempt at re-getting "incomplete NDFD files".

  • Version 1.30 Release Notes (10/17/2003: 207 users)
    Focused on:
    1. The Big Polygon
    2. Doing coverage grids using Nearest point Interpolation
    3. "-P -cells all" option
    4. Being able to handle operational / experimental URLs.

  • Version 1.27 Release Notes (9/9/2003: 167 users)
    Meeting: Glasgow Montana Great Divide Workshop.. 8/26/2003..8/28/2003
    Focused on:
    1. Introducing the -Data and -DP options (CGI)
    2. Introduced "web.tcl", a means to automate the downloading of NDFD data.
    3. Validating the earth radius fix (It is now 6371.2 km)

  • Version 1.25 Release Notes (8/7/2003: 129 users)
    Meeting: NDFD Technical Workshop conference on 8/13
    Focused on:
    1. Making the -P option a little more flexible
    2. Figuring out about ESRI ArcGIS projections
    3. Tying up some loose ends before burning some CDs for the NDFD Tech Conference.

  • Version 1.23 Release Notes (7/31/2003: 119 users)
    Focused on:
    1. Memory leak bugs.
    2. Handling of the Radius of Earth problem (6367.47 or 6371.2 km)
    3. Wave Height unit bug
    4. Weather structure not being initialized correctly
    5. Space in file path bug

  • Version 1.22a Release Notes (7/25/2003: 109 users)
    Anounced NDFD Technical Workshop conference

  • Version 1.22 Release Notes (7/15/2003: 95 users)
    Focused on:
    1. Inside out polygons.
    2. After a Wx Grid, thought all grids were Wx.
    3. Matthew T. Kallio found a potential Seg Fault in probe.c
    4. Occasionally added 1 to field of missing values bug
    5. Can now handle Dx != Dy correctly

  • Version 1.21a Release Notes (7/8/2003: 91 users)
    Anounced that the "sector files" were once again available.

  • Version 1.21 Release Notes (7/3/2003: 92 users)
    Focused on:
    1. imageGen and htmlMaker, can now handle PR.
    2. -SimpleWx option.
    3. probe now outputs to file or to stdout.
    4. Matthew T. Kallio found two memory leaks
    5. Glen Rawles suggested that I provide an ArcView ".avl" file in ./degrib/arcview for use with weather

  • Version 1.20 Release Notes (6/16/2003: 77 users)
    Beginning of NDFD Operation Readiness test
    Focused on:
    1. New data sources
    2. Regional: All conus sectors and PR.
    3. Variables: MaxT, MinT, PoP12, Temp, WindDir, WindSpd, Td, Sky, QPF, SnowAmount, Wx, and WaveHeight.

  • Version 1.18 Release Notes (6/6/2003: 63 users)
    Focused on:
    1. Instructions on how to re-configure the program for the new data sources
    2. limitted GrADS Support

  • Version 1.17 Release Notes (6/3/2003: 61 users)

  • Version 1.13 Release Notes (5/14/2003: 56 users)

  • Version 1.12 Release Notes (5/12/2003: 53 users)

  • Version 1.10 Release Notes (5/2/2003: 52 users)

  • Version 1.00 Release Notes (2/21/2003: 35 users)
    Meeting: 2003 AMS Conference in Long Beach CA.

  • Version 0.98 Release Notes (2/6/2003: 19 users)

  • Version 0.92 Release Notes (1/28/2003: 17 users)

  • Version 0.90 Release Notes (12/12/2002: 8 users)

  • Version 0.85 Release Notes (11/20/2002: 5 users)

  • Version 0.80 Release Notes (11/05/2002: 3 users)
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