GrADS Software can be found in the link below http://www.iges.org/grads/downloads.html You want the CentOS download under version 2.0.2. CentOS5.8-x86_64i686 (a.k.a. RHEL5) from your home directory [home ~]$ cd WRF/packages/bin [home bin]$ wget ftp://cola.gmu.edu/grads/2.0/grads-2.0.2-bin-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz [home bin]$ tar -xvzf grads-2.0.2-bin-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz You also want to download the data2.tar.gz under the Supplementary Files section. [home bin]$ cd ../lib [home lib]$ wget ftp://cola.gmu.edu/grads/data2.tar.gz [home lib]$ tar -xvzf data2.tar.gz [home lib]$ cd ~ [home ~ ]$ vi .bashrc paste this below the last export line export GADDIR=/home/jmace/WRF/packages/lib Save & exit [home ~ ]$ export GADDIR=/home/jmace/WRF/packages/lib Finished