The National Weather Services' NCEP Central Operations AWIPS II development team has begun Forecaster Integration Testing (FIT), according to Chief of Systems Integration Michelle Mainelli.

"The month of February was spent configuring the NCEP AWIP II Test Bed to begin Forecaster Integration Testing," says Mainelli. "During this past month, forecasters and developers from the National Hurricane Center, Storm Prediction Center, Aviation Weather Center, Climate Prediction Center, Ocean Prediction Center, Hydrometeorological Prediction Center, and NESDIS had an opportunity to spend two to three days testing the functionality, data display, and product generation on the system."

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.

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