In case you missed it — here's a recap of news from the Unidata Program Center for the month of November, 2016.
MetPy 0.4.1 Released
MetPy version 0.4.1 was released. Note that version 0.4.2 was released later in November (see below).
Unidata Software Training Workshops: Tell Us What You Think
The Unidata Program Center is looking for your input on how we should tailor our software training offerings to meet community needs. We will be accepting survey responses through 5 December 2016.
GOES-R Workshop for Broadcast Meteorologists
Note: This webinar has already been presented, but some materials are available on the seminar site. StormCenter Communications, Inc., in association with UCAR's COMET program, held a GOES-R Workshop for Broadcast Meteorologists on Friday 18 November, 2016.
NetCDF operators (NCO) version 4.6.2
Version 4.6.2 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.
MetPy 0.4.2 Released
MetPy version 0.4.2 has been released. This fixes a few more minor issues in the 0.4 series.
NetCDF 4.4.1.1
Version 4.4.1.1 of the NetCDF-C library is now available. This is a maintenance release containing several important bug fixes. The Unidata netCDF team recommend migrating to netCDF 4.4.1.1 as soon as is possible to avoid a potential — albeit extremely rare — data loss issue in ncgen specific to 64-bit environments when using netCDF4 compound data types. Please read the full release announcement for details.
Unidata Staff at AGU Fall 2016 Meeting
Members of the Unidata Program Center staff will be attending the American Geophysical Union 2016 Fall meeting, December 12-16 2016, in San Francisco. The schedule included in the article lists specific sessions at which UPC staff will be presenting or in attendance.
Unidata GEMPAK 7.3.1
GEMPAK 7.3.1 is available as source code, 64-bit Linux binaries, and an OS X binary tarball. The most significant updates in this release are to GEMPAK's Python scripts which retrieve data from an AWIPS EDEX server.
Unidata AWIPS 16.2.2
Unidata AWIPS 16.2.2 is available as a new set RPMs designed to fully update existing 16.1.5 CAVE and EDEX installations.
On the Developer's Blog
Unidata Program Center developers write regularly on technical topics on the Unidata Developer's Blog. Most recently, developer Dennis Heimbigner describes a proposed cloud architecture for the THREDDS Data Server, and developer Michael James talks about how AWIPS depends on GEMPAK, and what that means for MacOS support.
Governing Committee News
Unidata's Users Committee met 26-27 September 2016, in Boulder, Colorado. The meeting summary is available here. The next meeting is scheduled for 19-20 April 2017 in Boulder, CO.
Unidata's Strategic Advisory Committee is meeting 6-7 October 2016 in Boulder, Colorado. The meeting summary is available here. The next meeting will be held 13-14 April 2017 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
