GPhys: old what's news

• Sep 9 2005 (gphys-0.5.1)
  • added new gp* commands
  • many minor updates and debugs.

• June 6 2005 (gphys-0.5.0)
  • Support remote object access by incorporating gphys-remote. Improved GDir etc after the merger. (NOTE: gphys-remote as a separate package is frozen and will not be maintained).
  • Improved (and debuged) Grib-, GrADS-, and NetCDF-file handling
  • Enhanced GGraph (continent filling etc.)

• Mar 16 2005 (gphys-0.4.0)
  • Support the grib data formart (grib1)
  • Better missing data support (consistent with the improvement from RubyNetCDF 0.5.5 to 0.6.0).
  • Updates in GGraph and gpview
  • New methods in GPhys::IO such as var_names.
  • Updates of GPhys::EP_flux
  • Miscellaneous updates/enhancements/debug.

• Jan 14 2005 (gphys-0.3.5)
  • major enhancement of the graphic library GGraph: color bar, map projection, magin_info method, etc.
  • introduction of commands to be installed: gpprint, gpview, and grads2nc_with_gphys.
  • grads_gridded.rb: missing data support, improvement in time handling.
  • ep_flux.rb improved
  • misclleneous very minor improvements end debugs

• Nov 09 2004 (gphys-0.3.4)
  • Derivative and EP_flux (by D Tsukahara) incorpolated (modules NumRu::GPhys::EP_flux, NumRu::GPhys::Derivative, NumRu::Derivative).
  • ggraph supports more features (vector plots, support uetonf/uetonc etc)
  • and minor improvements.

• Aug 09 2004 (gphys-0.3.3) Transpose added (GPhys,Grid,VArray). GGraph improved. FFT pre-processing added (detrend and cos-taper). GrADS support enhanced. Debugs.

• May 21 2004 (gphys-0.3.2) supports GrADS file writing, though not complete -- so far, you have edit the control file afterwards by hand. Debugs. Minor enhancement of GGRaph.

• Mar 21 2004 (gphys-0.3.1) mostly debugs (and introduction of GPhys::IO)

• Mar 2 2004 (gphys-0.3.0) A major update:
  • GPhys (VArray) now supports units (incl. proper handling upon binary operations etc.).
  • Missing value handling is done by default (previous versions required an explicit re-aliasing of NetCDFVar#put|get).
  • Improved NetCDF convntion handling.
  • And many other minor improvement and debugs

• Jan 29 2004 (gphys-0.2.3) Functionarity enhanced:
  • GPhys#cut spports multiple position specification by Array/NArray
  • New method NetCDF_IO::each_along_dims_write, which is an iterator to help processing of data that is too large to read on memory at once.
  • FFTW3 support. (if FFTW3 is not installed, the FFTW2 wrapper in NArray (module FFT) will be used as before).
  • And other minor enhancement and many debugs.

• Nov 7 2003 (gphys-0.2.2) Now you can handle GrADS files only by 'require "numru/gphys"'. You can also install the new command grads2nc.rb if you like (by % cd bin; ruby install.rb).

• Sep 26 2003 (gphys-0.2.1) Virtual grouping of multiple NetCDF files (GPhys::NetCDF_IO). Added a sample to handle CIRA86 data.

• Sep 18, 2003. The GrADS data format is covered! That's is, GPhys enables you to handle GrADS and NetCDF data in the same way.
  (limitation: Current GrADS support is read only.)