In case you missed it — here's a wrap-up of news from the Unidata Program Center for the month of November, 2011.
October 2011 Governing Committee Meetings
Members of Unidata's two governing committees gathered in Boulder in late October 2011 for a joint meeting to share information and ideas between the committees and with Unidata Program Center staff.
THREDDS Data Server release 4.2.9
THREDDS Data Server version 4.2.9 is now available.
NetCDF-Java library version 4.2.27
Version 4.2.27 of the NetCDF-Java library is now available.
Farewell to Ed Hartnett
The Unidata Program Center wishes a fond farewell to Ed Hartnett, who has left Unidata for a position at the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP).
November 2011 Status Update: NAWIPS Migration to AWIPS II
Scott Jacobs made a remote presentation on the status of AWIPS II development during Unidata's joint Users and Policy committee meeting in October. Jacobs' presentation highlighted several details of the migration status.
EarthCube Update: Impressions from the Charrette
Three members of the Unidata Program Center staff attended the EarthCube charrette held in Washington D.C. on November 1-4, 2011. Read on for Unidata Program Director Mohan Ramamurthy's summary of the meeting.
Visual Data Analysis Workshop at AGU Fall Meeting
Unidata Program Center developer Yuan Ho, along with John Clyne of NCAR/CISL, will be presenting a data analysis workshop at the American Geophysical Union's Fall meeting in San Francisco.
Unidata Staff at AGU Fall 2011 Meeting
Members of the Unidata Program Center staff will be attending the American Geophysical Union 2011 Fall meeting, December 5-9 2011, in San Francisco.
NCAR's next supercomputer: Yellowstone
The Unidata Seminar Series presented a talk by David Hart of NCAR/CISL titled NCAR's Data-Centric Supercomputing Environment: Yellowstone. Hart described the supercomputer being installed in NCAR's new supercomputing center in Cheyenne, Wyoming. A recording of the talk is available.
EarthCube Update: Further Charrette Impressions
Three members of the Unidata Program Center staff attended the EarthCube charrette held in Washington D.C. on November 1-4, 2011. Read on for netCDF developer Russ Rew's thoughts on the meeting.
THREDDS and NetCDF-Java Sources now on GitHub
As part of Unidata's ongoing commitment to community driven software and collaborative development, we have moved the THREDDS and NetCDF-Java/Common Data Model (CDM) source repository to GitHub.
Unidata is looking for a Software Engineer
The Unidata Program Center is hiring! We are looking for a software developer to join our team in creating and maintaining software and data services to support the geosciences primarily netCDF C-based libraries and associated tools.
NUJAN NetCDF Writer Library 1.4.1
The UCAR Research Applications Laboratory (RAL) has released Nujan version 1.4.1. Nujan is a pure Java writer for HDF5 and NetCDF4 files. Nujan is 100% open source and is released under the MIT license.
IDV version 3.0u1 Released
The Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) version 3.0 update version 1 is now available.
