NESTDOWN Tutorial : Where to Start?

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

   gunzip NESTDOWN.TAR.gz
   tar -xvf NESTDOWN.TAR

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

   cd NESTDOWN

and you should see the following files and subdirectories listed:

   ls -l

-rwxr-xr-x   1 mesouser system     1535 Feb 11 19:36 CHANGES
-rwxr-xr-x   1 mesouser system     3805 Mar 12 17:34 Makefile
drwxr-xr-x   2 mesouser system     8192 Feb 19 12:20 Diff
-rwxr-xr-x   1 mesouser system     2500 Feb 11 19:34 README
-rwxr-xr-x   1 mesouser system      419 Jun  7 19:34 configure.rules
-rwxr-xr-x   1 mesouser system       92 Jun  7 19:34 macros_nestdown
-rwxr-xr-x   1 mesouser system      733 Feb 11 19:34 namelist.input
-rw-r--r--   1 mesouser system      659 Feb 11 19:34 namelist.input.SOC
-rw-r--r--   1 mesouser system     6989 Feb 11 19:34 nestdown.deck
drwxr-xr-x   2 mesouser system     8192 Feb 11 19:34 src

Read the README file in the directory.

Now you are ready to work with NESTDOWN.