RIP Tutorial : Introduction
Program RIP is an plotting utility program for the MM5 modeling
system.
RIP (which stands for Read/Interpolate/Plot) is a Fortran program
that invokes NCAR Graphics routines for the purpose of visualizing
output from the Fourth and Fifth Generation versions of the PSU/NCAR
Mesoscale Model (MM4/MM5) System. It has been under continuous
development since 1991, primarily by Mark Stoelinga at both NCAR
and the University of Washington. You can use RIP to plot almost
all of the output from the MM5 programs (TERRAIN_DOMAINx, REGRID_DOMAINx,
LITTLE_R_DOMAINx/RAWINS_DOMAINx, MMINPUT_DOMAINx, LOWBDY_DOMAINx,
and MMOUT_DOMAINx).
The RIP program makes shaded plots and the overlaying of more
than two fields much easier. Since it is based on NCAR Graphics
it requires the NCAR Graphics library to run. A good piece of
news for MM5 users, NCAR now provides the NCAR
Graphics library used by MM5 programs for free.
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RIP version 4
is now available.
- The main difference between RIP and RIP4, is that RIP4
now also support input from the WRF model.
- For now we are supporting both RIP and RIP4, but we
will stop the support for RIP in the near future.
- These notes are still written primarily for RIP
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