In case you missed it — here's a recap of news from the Unidata Program Center for the month of April, 2014.
Updates to Unidata IDD FNEXRAD and UNIWISC Datastream Products
Shortly after 0 UTC (18:00 MDT) on Saturday, March 21, 2014, the contents of the Internet Data Distribution FNEXRAD (NEXRAD Level III national composites) and UNIWISC (aka McIDAS Satellite Imagery Sectors) datastreams were updated with new products. Prior to the update, the FNEXRAD products were created on motherlode.ucar.edu and the UNIWISC products were created on unidata2.ssec.wisc.edu. Both datastreams are now being created in a 64-bit CentOS 6.5 Virtual Machine in the Amazon EC2 cloud.
Read on for a brief overview of the contents of each datastream with special emphasis on new or altered products.
NetCDF operators (NCO) version 4.4.3
Version 4.4.3 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.
FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Data Users Workshop
UCAR's COSMIC Program Office invites you to register for the Eighth FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Data Users Workshop, to be held at UCAR's Center Green (CG1) conference facility in Boulder, Colorado, USA from 30 September to 2 October 2014.
LDM 6.11.7 Released
Version 6.11.7 of the LDM has been released.
Recent Events Concerning Unidata's TDS
On Friday, March 28, 2014 the Unidata Program Center (UPC) updated the demonstration THREDDS Data Server (TDS) running on thredds.ucar.edu to version 4.5 of the TDS software. After encountering some issues with the updated version, including problems with community members' IDV bundles not loading as expected from thredds.ucar.edu, UPC staff reverted the demonstration server to version 4.3 on April 1st.
NetCDF 4.3.2
Version 4.3.2 of the NetCDF-C library is now available.
Unidata Regional Workshop at the University of Miami
On Friday and Saturday, April 18-19, 2014, the University of Miami hosted a Unidata Regional Workshop on the use of Unidata's Integrated Data Viewer (IDV); the open source Repository for Archiving, Managing, and Accessing Diverse DAta (RAMADDA); and data and tools available from Unidata.
On the Developer's Blog
Unidata Program Center developers write regularly on technical topics on the Unidata Developer's Blog. Recent articles touch on GEMPAK station files and effective use of netCDF compression and chunking.
Governing Committee News
Unidata's Users Committee is meeting March 31-April 1 2014. The meeting summary is available here. The next meeting will be 15-16 September 2014 in Boulder, Colorado.
Unidata's Strategic Advisory Committee (formerly the Policy Committee) met October 10-11, 2013. The meeting summary is available here. The next meeting will be May 20-21, 2014.
