Unidata Software Training Workshops provide training on software packages created or supported by Unidata, and provide background information and context to help attendees make more effective use of the software in their own scientific workflows. While the workshops are designed primarily to benefit the academic community, representatives from government agencies and commercial entities are also invited to participate.

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.

Members of the Unidata Program Center staff will be attending the American Geophysical Union 2017 Fall meeting, December 11-15 2017, in New Orleans, LA. The schedule here lists specific sessions at which UPC staff will be presenting or in attendance. See the AGU Fall meeting Scientific Program for additional information on the sessions.

In addition to the talks and poster sessions listed here, Unidata staff will be spending time at the UCAR Community Programs booth in the Exhibit Hall. Stop by to chat!

NOAA is looking for an Physical Scientist to work at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), Climate Prediction Center (CPC) in College Park, MD. CPC delivers real-time products and information that predict and describe climate variations on timescales from weeks to years thereby promoting effective management of climate risk and a climate-resilient society.

Version 4.7.0 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.

NOAA is looking for an IT specialist to work at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), Central Operations (NCO), Implementation and Data Services Branch (IDSB) in College Park, MD. The person hired will serve as the Team Lead of the IDSB Onboarding Team, which implements and maintains all of the operational applications running on the Integrated Dissemination Platform (IDP) system. IDP applications include programs that gather and process observational data, create radar mosaics, alert the public of watches and warnings, and other programs across the NWS and NOAA. Current applications include MADIS, MRMS, IRIS/iNWS, NLETS/EMWIN, among others. The Team Lead coordinates the implementation both with the development organization and across NCO. The right candidate will have strong communication, coordination, IT, software, and organizational skills.