Version 4.6.3 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 Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies (EIPT) is organizing a “hackathon” during the 2017 AMS Annual Meeting in Seattle. The hackathon will be hosted by Cray Supercomputing, and is open to anyone interested in “noodling with the data and getting an opportunity to utilize supercomputing time or just work through a problem we’ve posed,” according to the event organizers.

There will be a meet up for participants on Sunday evening the 22nd of January from 5-8pm at Cray Supercomputing (which is close to the Convention Center). For details about the event or to sign up to participate, see the EIPT Hackathon 2017 web site.

Spend the summer in beautiful Boulder, Colorado

Do you use Unidata software packages? Do you love to write code? The Unidata Summer Internship program is looking for you!

The Unidata Summer Internship offers undergraduate and graduate students an opportunity to work with Unidata software engineers and scientists on projects drawn from a wide variety of areas in the atmospheric and computational sciences. Unidata's mission is to support the Earth Science research and education community with data and tools for data access, analysis, and visualization. As a Unidata intern, you'll pursue the goal of adding innovative enhancements to data access, analysis, and visualization tools developed within Unidata.

The 3rd IEEE International SmartWorld Congress (IEEE SmartWorld 2017) will be held August 4-8, 2017, in San Francisco, California. With the theme “Smart Things Everywhere,” SmartWorld 2017 aims to “provide a high-profile, leading-edge platform for researchers and engineers to exchange and explore state-of-art advances and innovations in graceful integrations of Cyber, Physical, Social, and Thinking Worlds.”

AWIPS build 16.2.2-3 is now available via yum. Build 16.2.2-2 and 16.2.2-3 updates include:

• EDEX is now available for 64-bit CentOS/RHEL 7.
• Radar mosaic CAVE bundle fix.
• httpd access_log now reports client hostname.
• Re-enable LDM scour to backup EDEX scour in the event that EDEX stops but LDM continues to write files to /awips2/data_store.
• Added command "edex start base" to start all services excluding the LDM (same as at boot).
• Removed gempak from awips2-server group due to yum not resolving deps on some systems.

AWIPS Install Instructions and User Manual
http://unidata.github.io/awips2/