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NSF Unidata Update: September 2024

01 October 2024

In case you missed it — here's a recap of news from the NSF Unidata Program Center for the month of September, 2024.

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NSF Unidata Staff Honored with AGU Open Science Recognition Prize

18 September 2024

Several current and former NSF Unidata Program Center staff members have been recognized with the American Geophysical Union's 2024 Open Science Recognition Prize for their work as part of a team of Major Contributors to the CF Conventions.

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Applications Now Open for NSF NCAR Graduate Visitor Program

17 September 2024

The NSF NCAR Advanced Study Program (ASP) is pleased to announce that they are now accepting applications from graduate students for the 2025 Graduate Visitor Program.

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GOES Rebroadcast User Survey

16 September 2024

NOAA's Satellite Products and Services Division is looking for feedback on community use of the GOES Rebroadcast system (GRB).

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netCDF vs Zarr, an Incomplete Comparison

09 September 2024

At NSF Unidata, we have been supporting and developing netCDF standards and packages since the original release of netCDF in 1990. We strongly believe in the usefulness of netCDF Common Data Model for Earth Systems Science data, and for other types of data! NetCDF files can be used efficiently in machine learning modeling applications and can be used as a virtual Zarr datasets.

NSF Unidata has been urged by our community to investigate options to allow netCDF to work more easily with modern cloud-based infrastructure. Based on the strong interest and rapid adoption of Zarr by the community, the netCDF team decided to begin working with the Zarr community to ensure that these two widely used data storage mechanisms can interoperate if necessary.

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