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NSF Unidata academic community members can retrieve archived satellite data from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's SSEC.

NSF Unidata regional workshops aim to help the atmospheric science community understand and use the Python ecosystem.

NSF Unidata tools like the IDV help visualize many types of geoscience data. Here an image of the COSMIC data set shows individual soundings derived from GPS radio occultation.

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AWIPS Tips: Saving User Configurations Locally
May 1, 2024

Welcome back to AWIPS Tips!
Today we’re going to walk through the process of saving user configurations and overrides locally. This process can be helpful to have a backup version of these files, if you are connecting to different EDEX servers, or an EDEX server was updated and no longer has your files. Read more...
Why is the Keras 3 Release a Big Deal for the Deep Learning Community?
April 18, 2024

The Keras package is an open-source library that provides a Python interface for deep learning. Keras is intended to be a user-friendly, modular, and extensible way to enable fast experimentation with deep neural networks. With Keras version 3, the package provides APIs for using three backends: TensorFlow, Jax, and PyTorch.
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Read more in the News@Unidata blog

MetPy 1.6.2 Released
April 2, 2024
SSEC Unidata Server Shutting Down in April 2024
April 2, 2024
NetCDF operators (NCO) version 5.2.1
February 21, 2024
AWIPS Tips: AWIPS 20.3.2-2 Software Release
February 21, 2024
MetPy 1.6.1 Released
January 29, 2024

Software News

Updates and other news about NSF Unidata software packages

MetPy 1.6.2 Released
April 2, 2024
MetPy 1.6.1 Released
January 29, 2024
IDV 6.2
August 28, 2023

Data

The NSF Unidata Program center makes a wide variety of near-real-time and archive geoscience data and model output available to the university community. See the Data page for an overview of the available data types and access methods.

Mesoscale model output.