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NSF Unidata encourages student participation in the program through internships and support to travel to workshops and conferences.

NSF Unidata staff participate in numerous scientific conferences to talk with scientists, educators, and students about NSF Unidata offerings.

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: Upcoming CentOS7 End of Life
April 3, 2024

Welcome back to AWIPS Tips!

The AWIPS software was originally developed to run on the RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system. RHEL is not free to use, and because of that NSF Unidata has historically used CentOS as our RHEL operating system of choice.
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2024 MetPy Users Survey
April 2, 2024

The MetPy development team is looking for anyone who has used MetPy to take the 2024 MetPy Users Survey. The survey should only take approximately 5-10 minutes and is completely anonymous.
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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.