MM5toGrADS Tutorial : Where to Start?

First, go to your working directory (MM5V3) and download the MM5toGrADS program tar file from NCAR's ftp site. Once you have it on your machine, type the following to unzip and untar it:

   gunzip MM5toGrADS.TAR.gz
   tar -xvf MM5toGrADS.TAR

After this, you should see a program directory MM5toGrADS/ created in your working directory. cd to this directory:

   cd MM5toGrADS

and you should see the following files and subdirectories listed:

   ls -l

-rwxr-xr-x   1 mesouser users       2621 Apr 15 11:39 CHANGES
-rwxr-xr-x   1 mesouser users       3671 Apr 16 11:23 Makefile
-rwxr-xr-x   1 mesouser users       3237 Apr 15 11:39 README
-rwxr-xr-x   1 mesouser users       1522 Apr 15 11:39 mm5_to_grads.csh
-rwxr-xr-x   1 mesouser users       7574 Apr 15 11:39 namelist.input
drwxr-xr-x   2 mesouser users       8192 May 15 10:41 src
 

Read the README file in the directory.

Now you are ready to work with the MM5toGrADS software.