GRAPH Tutorial : Where to Start?

First, go to your working directory (MM5V3) and download the GRAPH program tar file from NCAR's ftp site. Once you have it on your machine, type the following to unzip and untar it:

gunzip GRAPH.TAR.gz
tar -xvf GRAPH.TAR

After this, you should see a program directory GRAPH/ created in your working directory. cd to this directory:

cd GRAPH

and you should see the following files and subdirectories listed:

ls -l

-rwxr-xr-x   1 mesouser system      1679 Jan 26 10:06 CHANGES
drwxr-xr-x   2 mesouser system      8192 Dec 5 18:18 Diff
-rwxr-xr-x   1 mesouser system      3918 Mar 12 17:12 Makefile
-rwxr-xr-x   1 mesouser system      5963 Feb 11 10:09 README
-rwxr-xr-x   1 mesouser system      1212 Jul 31 1999 README.namelist
drwxr-xr-x   2 mesouser system      8192 Mar 13 14:57 Templates
-rwxr-xr-x   1 mesouser system      1288 Jul 31 1999 g_color.tbl
-rwxr-xr-x   1 mesouser system       392 Jul 31 1999 g_defaults.nml
-rwxr-xr-x   1 mesouser system       796 Jul 31 1999 g_map.tbl
-rwxr-xr-x   1 mesouser system      6721 Jul 31 1999 g_plots.tbl
-rwxr-xr-x   1 mesouser system      4337 Mar 13 14:57 graph.csh
drwxr-xr-x   2 mesouser system     16384 Mar 28 12:02 src

where:

g_color.tbl:	a list of color codes used by NCAR Graphics
g_defaults.nml:	namelist for Graph
g_map.tbl:	setups for plotting map background
g_plots.tbl:	file to edit to select time, level, and field to plot
graph.csh:	c-shell script to run Graph job

For basic plotting, only the g_plots.tbl requires editing.

Also read the README file in the directory.

Now you are ready to work with Graph.