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AWIPS Tips: Plotting NEXRAD Data in Python

29 May 2024

Welcome back to AWIPS Tips!

Today we’re going to take a look at another python-awips example notebook. This notebook demonstrates how to work with radar data by investigating available radar sites and seeing what products are available for a given site. The plots created in this notebook are from NEXRAD 3 algorithm, precipitation, and derived product data, not the base data. If you are not familiar with python-awips, please feel free to check out our documentation or visit previous AWIPS Tips for python-awips.

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Apply Now For NSF Faculty Travel Grants

24 May 2024

A new U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) funded faculty travel grant program will support up to 50 early-to-mid career faculty from under-resourced U.S. undergraduate-focused institutions, such as Emerging Research Institutions (ERIs), Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), and community colleges (2YCs) to attend the fall AGU24 annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

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SSEC Unidata Server Has Been Shut Down!

22 May 2024

The NSF Unidata server hosted at the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (unidata3.ssec.wisc.edu) has been permanently decommissioned.

Those who used the services provided by unidata3.ssec.wisc.edu should switch to the following alternate servers:

Service	If you used	Switch to
McIDAS ADDE	adde.ssec.wisc.edu	adde.ucar.edu
IDD/LDM Upstream	idd.ssec.wisc.edu	idd.unidata.ucar.edu
HTTP access to IDD Data		atm.ucar.edu

Please reach out to us at support@unidata.ucar.edu if you have any questions!

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AWIPS Tips: Inserting Data into EDEX with Python

15 May 2024

Welcome back to AWIPS Tips!

Today we’re going to discuss an alternative method to ingest data into EDEX outside of edexBridge. The most standard way of inserting data into the EDEX processing queue is by using the -edex command in your pqact entry when receiving data through the LDM.

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Posted by Shay Carter [ Comments [0] ]

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AWIPS Tips: Saving User Configurations Locally

01 May 2024

Welcome back to AWIPS Tips!

Today we’re going to walk through the process of saving user configurations and overrides locally. This process can be helpful to have a backup version of these files, if you are connecting to different EDEX servers, or an EDEX server was updated and no longer has your files.

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Posted by Tiffany Meyer [ Comments [0] ]