Dr. Roland Stull, professor in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of British Columbia's Vancouver campus and author of several widely-respected meteorology textbooks, has made the contents of his book Meteorology for Scientists and Engineers (3rd Edition) available to the public at no charge. Alongside this 2011 edition he is making available a slightly revised version, completed in 2015, retitled Practical Meteorology.

Both books have been released to use and share for free under a Creative Commons License. According to the books' web site, they cover the same topics in the same order, and share the same index.

The Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison is searching for qualified applicants for three positions in SIPS Support, Technical Computing Support, and GOES-R data processing.

Unidata has made available a version of AWIPS II CAVE for Mac OS X. The DMG file download can be found at www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/awips2/

This OS X release is based on JogAmp 2 (rather than JOGL 1), and provides the D2D, Hydro, MPE, and Localization perspectives. This release does **not** include the National Centers Perspective (NCP), the Graphical Forecast Editor (GFE) perspective, or any Nsharp-based upper-air sounding plugins (all of which are available in the 64-bit Linux release).

The Big Data Project (BDP) is an initiative undertaken by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to increase public availability of large volumes of environmental data collected and generated by the agency. As part of the Big Data Project, Unidata is working in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) on a demonstration project to provide access to a more than twenty years of archived NEXRAD Level II radar data — augmented continuously with new, real-time data — stored in Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) environment. In addition to assisting AWS with ingesting new data flowing from the NEXRAD sites, Unidata Program Center staff have set up a THREDDS Data Server in the AWS environment to provide services allowing community access to the stored data.

Version 4.5.3 of the netCDF Operators (NCO) has been released. NCO is an Open Source package that consists of a dozen standalone, command-line programs that take netCDF files as input, then operate (e.g., derive new data, average, print, hyperslab, manipulate metadata) and output the results to screen or files in text, binary, or netCDF formats.

The NCO project is coordinated by Professor Charlie Zender of the Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine. More information about the project, along with binary and source downloads, are available on the SourceForge project page.