In case you missed it — here's a recap of news from the Unidata Program Center for the month of March, 2015.
Reminder: Unidata Regional Workshop at the University of South Florida
The University of South Florida, the Florida Institute of Technology, and the West Central Florida Chapter of the American Meteorological Society are pleased to sponsor and host a Unidata Regional Workshop on April 10-12, 2015 (Friday through Sunday). Unidata Program Center staff will provide introductory and advanced training in the use of Unidata's Integrated Data Viewer (IDV), the Repository for Archiving, Managing and Accessing Diverse Data (RAMADDA), and other Unidata data and tools. In addition to the formal training sessions, there will be informal opportunities to interact with the UPC staff. Attendees are encouraged to “bring” their own data (preferably accessible from a remote access server) for exploration during the workshop.
Upgraded Data Server at Colorado State University
The Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University (CSU) has a long history of research and education in all aspects of the atmospheric sciences. Faculty, students, and staff use a wide variety of datasets in their research and teaching, from numerical models to gridded reanalyses to radar and satellite observations to measurements collected in the field and lab. However, the students in the department recognized issues that were preventing these large datasets from being used to their full potential.
NetCDF-Java library version 4.5.5
The NetCDF-Java/Common Data Model (CDM) library version 4.5.5 was released on March 6, 2015. The development team recommends this upgrade for anyone using the CDM. (THREDDS Data Server (TDS) version 4.5.5 is also available as a beta-test release.)
Version 4.5.5 includes serveral bug fixes and improvements. Read on for details.
LDM 6.12.7 Released
Version 6.12.7 of the LDM package has been released.
IDV 5.1
The Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) version 5.1 is available now. This release is recommended for all users. Read on for a list of new features and problems resolved in this release.
NCL Version 6.3.0
NCAR's Computational & Information Systems Laboratory
released version 6.3.0 of the NCAR Command Language (NCL) on
March 18, 2015.
Unidata Program Center Welcomes Inken Purvis
The Unidata Program Center is pleased to welcome Inken Purvis to our staff. Inken joined us as an Administrative Assistant on March 2, 2015; she'll be the Program Center's new Travel Coordinator, among other administrative duties.
On the Developer's Blog
Unidata Program Center developers write regularly on technical topics on the Unidata Developer's Blog. Most recently, developer Julien Chastang writes about an iPython notebook he created to help visualize data in a netCDF file.
Governing Committee News
Unidata's Users Committee met March 26-27, 2014, in Boulder, Colorado. The meeting summary will be available here shortly. Dates for the next meeting are still to be decided.
Unidata's Strategic Advisory Committee (formerly the Policy Committee) met October 8-9, 2014 in Boulder, Colorado. The meeting summary is available here. The next meeting will be held 22-23 April, 2015 at Millersville University.
