In case you missed it — here's a recap of news from the Unidata Program Center for the month of January, 2018.
CAVE 17.1.1-4 for macOS
AWIPS CAVE 17.1.1-4 is available for macOS. This release includes updates for GOES-E (16) imagery, METAR sfc plots, and fixes some map resource labeling issues.
Software Demonstrations at the Unidata AMS Booth
Software developers and other staff from the Unidata Program Center were on hand in the AMS exhibit hall, providing demonstrations of AWIPS, IDV, and MetPy.
MetPy 0.7 Released
MetPy 0.7.0 has been released. This release has a wide collection of new features as well as minor bug fixes, including several contributions from our community.
Help Envision a Geospatial Software Institute
The National Science Foundation has recently funded a project to conceptualize a Geospatial Software Institute (GSI) as a long-term hub of excellence in software infrastructure that can serve diverse research and education communities.
Unidata Program Center Welcomes Cece Hedrick
Cece Hedrick joined the Unidata Program Center (UPC) team on October 16th, 2017 as a software developer. Her first day at the office coincided with the joint meeting of Unidata's Users' and Strategic Advisory Committees, so … we pretty much threw her in the deep end of the pool. On the bright side, Cece got an instant introduction to the community we're working for.
NetCDF operators (NCO) version 4.7.2
Version 4.7.2 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.
AMS 2018 Conference Highlights from the Unidata Staff
This year's annual American Meteorological Society meeting, was held January 7-11 in Austin, Texas. We were happy to see many of the Unidata community members participating in the meeting at our booth in the exhibit hall, and to meet so many prospective community members at the AMS Student Conference.
NetCDF 4.6.0
Version 4.6.0 of the netCDF-C library is now available. See the Release Notes for complete information. Highlights of this release include:
- Full support for using HDF5 dynamic filters, both for reading and writing.
- An option to enable strict null-byte padding for headers.
- Changes to support workflows created under versions prior to 4.5.0.
- Various bug fixes and other enhancements.
AWIPS 17.1.1-5
Unidata AWIPS 17.1.1-5 is now available for Red Hat/CentOS 6/7 and macOS. Unidata AWIPS is a meteorological display and analysis package originally developed by the National Weather Service and Raytheon, repackaged by Unidata to support non-operational use in research and education.
REMINDER: Call for Proposals: Unidata 2018 Community Equipment Awards
The Unidata Program Center is pleased to announce the opening of the 2018 Unidata Community Equipment Awards solicitation. Created under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation, Unidata equipment awards are intended to encourage new members from diverse disciplinary backgrounds in the geosciences to join the Unidata community, and to encourage existing members to continue their active participation, enhancing the community process. For 2018, a total of $100,000 is available for awards; proposals for amounts up to $20,000 will be considered.
REMINDER: Unidata Software Training Workshops — Tell Us What You Think
Traditionally, Unidata Program Center staff have provided training workshops each year. In recent years, attendance at workshops in Boulder has declined, raising the question of whether this is the best way to serve our community.
On the Developer's Blog
Unidata Program Center developers write regularly on technical topics on the Unidata Developer's Blog. MetPy Mondays posts continue to appear each week — check out this month's posts on color tables, MetPy 0.7, deprecation warnings, and using the THREDDS radar server.
Governing Committee News
Unidata's Users Committee met 16-17 October 2017, in Boulder, Colorado. This was a joint meeting with the Strategic Advisory Committee. The meeting summary will be available shortly. The next meeting is scheduled for 4-5 April 2018 in Boulder, CO.
Unidata's Strategic Advisory Committee met 17-18 October 2017 in Boulder, Colorado. This was a joint meeting with the Users Committee. The meeting summary will be available shortly. The next meeting will be held 29-30 March 2018 in Washington, DC.
