The THREDDS Data Server version 4.2.4 was made available as the stable release on February 22, 2011. This version is recommended for all users, including production servers. The latest update can be downloaded at https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/thredds.

Version 4.2.4 includes the following changes:

• featureCollection extended to point data
• ncISO included in distribution (thanks to Dave Neufeld and Ted Habermann, NOAA/NGDC)
• Added projection EPSG:3857 (used by GoogleMaps) to default CRS list used in WMS GetCapabilities documents
• Various other bug fixes

For a complete list of changes, see the Change Log.

The NetCDF-Java/CDM library version 4.2.20 was released on February 16, 2011. The latest update can be downloaded from the NetCDF Java Library page at https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/. This is mostly a bug fix release, and we encourage you to switch to using it for all your work.

For a list of changes in the current version, see the Change Log.

The School of Meteorology, College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences, University of Oklahoma is seeking a highly-motivated individual to join our research team at the University of Oklahoma. The fellow's research will focus on developing coupled numerical modeling capabilities and applying them to urban-scale weather and air quality simulations and predictions. The model results will be verified against observations.

Telophase Corporation, a federal and commercial IT Services company in the Washington DC Metro area, is offering the following full time employment opportunity at its customer site in Greenbelt, MD. Telophase is seeking a seasoned and motivated programmer with 5+ years of experience in software development / engineering in Linux/UNIX environment; including requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, testing, and problem diagnosis.

The month of January was extremely busy for the National Weather Services' NCEP Central Operations, according to Chief of Systems Integration Michelle Mainelli. Activities included finalizing the first version of the AWIPS II software, preparing AWIPS II workstations for demonstration at the American Meteorological Society meeting in Seattle, and finalizing the configuration of the AWIPS II test bed located at the World Weather Building in Camp Springs, MD.

"On January 12th, we submitted our AWIPS II baseline NCEP Perspective to the NWS Office of Science and Technology," says Mainelli. "We expect to see the NAWIPS migrated functionality in the AWIPS II release from Raytheon Technical Services by the end of March 2011. NCEP will continue to provide software updates to Unidata until that time."