The Unidata Users Committee invites you to join Unidata staff, community members, and guests for a community workshop to take place in 25-29 June 2018 in Boulder, Colorado.

This will be the Unidata community's sixth triennial workshop. The Unidata Users Committee is currently planning the 2018 event, but we encourage community members to save the date. Updates will be provided via e-mail, posts on the News@Unidata blog, and on the 2018 Unidata Users Workshop web page as planning progresses.

Version 4.5.0 of the netCDF-C library is now available. The largest focus of this release has been the inclusion of the DAP4 protocol. See the Release Notes for additional information on using DAP4.

Kevin Tyle

Kevin Tyle of the University at Albany, State University of New York has been awarded the 2017 Russell L. DeSouza Award by the Unidata Users committee. The DeSouza Award honors “individuals whose energy, expertise, and active involvement enable the Unidata Program to better serve the geosciences.”

Tyle has been active in the Unidata community for many years, serving on the Unidata Users Committee from 2009 through 2015 (as committee chair 2012-2015), and joining the Strategic Advisory Committee in late 2015. He is currently involved in the NSF Big Weather Web project, which aims to make big data infrastructure affordable and adequate for university members of the Numerical Weather Prediction community by combining virtualization, cloud computing and storage, and big data management techniques.

NOAA is looking for a meteorologist to work at the Aviation Weather Center (AWC) in Kansas City, MO. The AWC is part of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), and is co-located with the NWS Training Center, Central Region Headquarters, and the Operations Proving Ground. There are eight forecast desks at AWC: five focused on domestic forecasts and three focused on international forecasts. AWC forecaster duties include issuing SIGMETs (aviation warnings), AIRMETs (aviation advisories), convective forecasts, and graphical forecasts covering phenomena such as icing, turbulence, wind shear, convection, and clouds and visibility. AWC works closely with meteorologists at the FAA Air Traffic Control System Command Center, Center Weather Service Units, airlines, other countries, and occasionally WFOs.

NOAA has openings for Mesoscale Assistant forecasters at the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) the National Weather Center (NWC) on the University of Oklahoma (OU) Research Campus in Norman, OK. The SPC is a National Center responsible for the prediction of a variety of high impact weather over the continental United States. This includes thunderstorms, severe convective weather, and fire weather through Day 8, and short-term winter weather. The Mesoscale Assistant forecaster positions are in the Operations Branch at the SPC.