In case you missed it — here's a recap of news from the Unidata Program Center for the month of January, 2016.
Community Survey: Tell Unidata What You Think!
As a community-governed program, Unidata depends on guidance and feedback from educators, researchers, and students in the atmospheric and related sciences. The Unidata Community Survey seeks your feedback both on existing Unidata services and possible future directions for the program. Your ideas will help inform Unidata's path forward; your participation is much appreciated.
If you've already given us your input, thank you! If you haven't had a chance to fill out the survey yet, you still have time. We'll be closing the survey to comments on 8 February 2016.
NetCDF operators (NCO) version 4.5.4
Version 4.5.4 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.
NetCDF 4.4.0
Version 4.4.0 of the NetCDF-C library is now available. Highlights of this release include
CDM-5 support, support for opening in-memory file content,
re-organized cmake configuration, and modifications to
ncgen
to properly handle the L and UL suffixes for integer constants to keep backward compatibility.
NetCDF-Fortran 4.4.3
Version 4.4.3 of the NetCDF-Fortran library is now available. This is primarily a compatibility release that addresses a false negative introduced by netCDF-C 4.4.0 with netCDF-Fortran 4.4.2.
Did El Niño cause a blizzard?
In case you missed it: Unidata's Jeff Weber contributed to an NPR segment aired on 27 January 2016 discussing the connection (if any) between this season's big El Niño event and winter storm Jonas. An archive of the segement is available.
Reminder: Unidata 2016 Community Equipment Awards
Just a reminder that the 2016 Unidata Community Equipment Awards solicitation is open for new proposals through March 25, 2016. If you're looking for equipment (physical hardware or cloud-based services) to get your Unidata technology project off the ground, we encourage you to submit a proposal.
On the Developer's Blog
Unidata Program Center developers write regularly on technical topics on the Unidata Developer's Blog. Most recently, developer Ward Fisher provides some technical details about the CloudIDV project.
Governing Committee News
Unidata's Users Committee met 30 September - 2 October, 2015, in Boulder, Colorado. The next meeting will be held 11-12 April, 2016 in Boulder, CO.
Unidata's Strategic Advisory Committee met 30 September - 2 October, 2015, in Boulder, Colorado. The next meeting will be held 7-8 April, 2016 at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg.
