RE: frustrating problem with GEMPAK5.8+ distros

• To: "James Murakami " <tenki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: RE: frustrating problem with GEMPAK5.8+ distros
• From: "Robert Mullenax" <rmullenax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 13:11:15 -0500

Yes, very weird.  If I do just plots, no contours at all, I am getting
just a bunch of zeros for some grid points, but correct numbers for
others.

-----Original Message-----
From: James Murakami
To: Robert Mullenax
Cc: gembud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 8/2/2005 12:56 PM
Subject: RE: frustrating problem with GEMPAK5.8+ distros

Robert,

You're right. Sort of...
If you plot values first and contour second, everything goes right (see
attached gif image). If you contour first and plot values second, you
get weird numbers ploted (see second attached gif). The contour scheme
remains fine. Even if you invoke clear and reset, the plotted numbers
are incorrect (they change with each new attempt). So, yes, there seems
to be a bug in the software.

James

(For reference, I just used current NAM212 data set and used default
settings for displaying 500mb temperature(deg C). I'm running version
5.8.2a on a Solaris8 machine from source.)