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The netCDF operators NCO version 1.2.1 are ready. Differences with version 1.2 include one new feature and one bugfix. Get the new version and read the user's guide on http://nco.sourceforge.net Summary of changes: 1. Operators now perform automatic type conversion of integers to doubles before arithmetic. This feature allows ncwa, ncra, and ncea to handle averaging of longs, shorts, bytes, and chars in a more satisfactory manner. One immediate benefit is that ncwa no longer complains when user's try to apply weights (e.g., gaussian weights) all less than one to the averaging of an integer (e.g., nlons). Formerly ncwa would issue a warning, a workaround, and then dump core (because weights converted to integers were all zeros). Now that arithmetic is performed in double precision (rather than in the precision of the variable), ncwa handles this situation correctly. 2. A bug introduced in NCO 1.2 which broke the -x switch has been fixed 3. Thanks to Henry Butowsky for implementing the type conversion feature Thanks to Ethan Davis for improving the build procedure Enjoy, Charlie -- Charlie Zender zender@xxxxxxx (949) 824-2987/FAX-3256, Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine CA 92697-3100 Visiting NCAR CGD CMS July 24--September 22: (303) 497-1616/FAX-1324
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