VERSION 3 OF RIP PROGRAM (release 3-2)
(updated December 19, 2002)

This is the main directory of RIP program in MM5 modeling system
Version 3. Everything a user needs to run the RIP program, except
for NCAR Graphics libraries, is contained in this directory.

RIP, like GRAPH, requires NCAR Graphics to run. NCAR Graphics is
a licensed software, but part of it has become free. RIP only
requires this part of the NCAR Graphics to run.  For information
on NCAR Graphics, please visit

    http://ngwww.ucar.edu/info/pricing.html

This version of RIP may be run on Cray, unix workstations, and PC
running Linux.

All fortran source code is located in directory src/.

For bug fixes, please read file CHANGES.  For actual diff files,
please see directory Diff.

For questions, please send emails to mesouser@ucar.edu

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What is in V3 RIP?

RIP is plotting program developed by Dr. Mark Stoelinga at
University of Washington. It may be used to plot V3 pressure
level data, and V1/V2 and V3 sigma level data.

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RIP documentation:

The document "A Users' Guide to RIP Version 3", by Mark
Stoelinga, is a comprenesive guide to all aspects of RIP Version
3, including set-up (compilation, etc.), data pre-processing with
the program RIPDP, and the use of RIP itself.  The User's Guide
is written in HTML format, and can be found in the RIP tar file
in Doc/ripug.html.  It can also be accessed on the web from the
MM5 Web Site, http://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/mm5/documents/ripug.html.

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IBM operation note:

When running on an IBM SP2, if the namelist in rip.in
is in the default format of beginning and ending 
with a "&", then an environment variable must be
set to recognize this.  The command is:

        setenv XLFRTEOPTS "namelist=old"

.  If one desires to run on the IBM without setting 
this variable, the namelist delimiters must be modified 
to begin with "&" and end with "/".

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Files/directories in this directory:

CHANGES:     will contain changes made to this tar file

Diff/:       directory that contains files with actual differences
                (generated with "diff") between versions
Doc/:	     RIP documentation directory
Makefile:    top-level makefile
README:	     basic information on RIP
color.tbl:   color table for RIP
psadilookup.dat: lookup table for obtaining T from p and theta-e
x.in:        input files for RIP programs
tserstn.dat  sample list of stations for time series print out
src/:        directory that holds all source code for RIP
stationlist: observation location file