Hassanpreet Dhaliwal

by Hassanpreet Dhaliwal
2022 Unidata summer intern

I started my summer internship with the goals of understanding software development and improving my coding practices to feel confident writing reproducible and sharable code. My time at Unidata not only gave me a structure for writing sharable pieces of software, but also helped me in exploring data manipulation and visualization practices to their full creative extent.

Jessica Blunt

by Jessica Blunt
2019 Unidata summer intern

The overarching theme of my projects this summer has been improving the accessibility of the Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) for the average scientist. The IDV is a versatile and powerful, though complicated, program.

When I ask people if they’ve heard of the IDV, there are two types of answers that stand out. The first, a simple “no” or “I think someone mentioned it once.” The second, something like “I’ve tried to figure it out, but didn’t get very far.” I worked to reach those who gave the second answer.

Unidata has developed a version of the IDV dubbed “CloudIDV.” CloudIDV is designed for application streaming, allowing an instance of the IDV to be accessed via tablet, mobile phone, or even via a browser. These features are enabled through a fairly new technology called containerization. There are several containerization technologies in use; for CloudIDV we are using Docker.

The IDV group recently received a request from a researcher to have the IDV display CF-compliant netCDF trajectory files. The IDV already has some limited capacity to handle these data. However, this particular request requires the IDV handle multiple trajectories in one CF-compliant file, which is currently not supported by the IDV. We would like to assist this researcher with these data.

Introducing IDV 5.0 - code name Lynx!