In case you missed it — here's a recap of news from the NSF Unidata Program Center for the month of February, 2024.
Upcoming deadlines to be aware of:
| 15 March | Proposals for 2024 NSF Unidata Community Equipment Award grants are due. |
| 15 March | Applications for the ESIP Raskin Scholarship are due. |
| 3 May | Nominations for the 2024 Russell L. DeSouza Award are due. |
Highlights from last month:
2024 DeSouza Award Nominations
The Unidata Users Committee invites you to submit nominations for the Russell L. DeSouza Award for Outstanding Community Service. This Community Service Award honors individuals whose energy, expertise, and active involvement enable the Unidata Program to better serve the geosciences.
AWIPS Tips: New RAWS Data
This installment of AWIPS-Tips describes on a relatively new dataset that was added
following a request by a community member.
Quick Tips for ESS Machine Learning Projects
There are many little decisions ML practitioners make along the way when starting an Earth Systems Science (ESS) ML project. This article provides some tips and ideas to consider as you're getting started.
ESIP: Raskin Scholarship
The Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) is an open networked community that brings together science, data and information technology practitioners around Earth science issues. The ESIP Raskin Scholarship (application deadline March 15) is open to current graduate students in Earth or computer sciences who has an interest in community evolution of Earth Science data systems. Preference is given to applicants who can demonstrate a connection to ESIP-related activities.
AMS 2024 Conference Highlights from the NSF Unidata Staff
This year's annual American Meteorological Society meeting was held 27 January - 1 February 2024 in Baltimore, MD. Several NSF Unidata staff members were able to travel to Baltimore to lead workshops, visit with students, present papers and posters, and otherwise take part in the conference. As always, staff members spent some time meeting with community members at UCAR's exhibit hall booth. This article presents some conference highlights from the perspective of NSF Unidata staff.
AWIPS 20.3.2-2 Software Release
NSF Unidata AWIPS 20.3.2-2 has been released, incorporating many updates and fixes from the 20.3.2-1 release. This release includes installers for CAVE (CentOS7, Windows, VMware Player, and MacOS), and for EDEX (CentOS7).
NetCDF operators (NCO) version 5.2.1
Version 5.2.1 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.
On the Developer's Blog
NSF Unidata Program Center developers write regularly on technical topics on the Unidata Developer's Blog. The ongoing MetPy Mondays series looks at dealing with missing data.
Governing Committee News
NSF Unidata's Users Committee met November 1-3, 2023 in a joint meeting with the Strategic Advisory Committee at the Unidata Program Center in Boulder, CO. The Users Committee will meet next May 13-14, 2024 in Boulder, CO.
NSF Unidata's Strategic Advisory Committee met November 1-3, 2023 in a joint meeting with the Users Committee at the Unidata Program Center in Boulder, CO. The Strategic Advisory Committee will meet next May 2-3, 2023 in Washington, DC.
