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29 December 2011

Unidata developer John Caron spends a big portion of his time thinking about how to make the formats in which scientific data are stored more useful and robust. If you're a user of the GRIB or BUFR formats, or just have an interest in the long-term viability of data formats in general, read on.

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Fire Weather Model Output Available via CONDUIT

27 September 2011

The National Centers for Environmental Prediction have begun providing Fire Weather output from selected areas of the North American Mesoscale (NAM) model via Unidata's CONDUIT feed. The additional data were added into the CONDUIT feed on September 20, 2011.

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NCAR Research Data Archive makes data subsets available in NetCDF format

08 September 2011

NCAR's Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) Research Data Archive (RDA) contains a large and diverse collection of meteorological and oceanographic observations, operational and reanalysis model outputs, and remote sensing datasets to support atmospheric and geosciences research, along with ancillary datasets, such as topography/bathymetry, vegetation, and land use.

CISL's Data Support Section, which manages the Research Data Archive, recently announced that users of some subsets of the archived data can request files in NetCDF format.

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Global Lightning Data Now Available to the Unidata Community

07 April 2011

WSI Corporation and Unidata are pleased to announce the availability of global lightning data to members of the Unidata community.

WSI Corp.'s Global Lightning Network (GLN) provides high quality real-time and archive lightning stroke data to clients throughout the world. Lightning sensors are located at more than 150 international hosting partner sites, in addition to the detectors that make up the North American Precision Lightning Network (all NAPLN data is included in the GLN data feed). In the key deployment areas, including North and South America, Europe, and Asia/Australia, GLN detection efficiency values are as high as 90-95%, with corresponding location accuracies less than 1 km. Real-time data are collected in a 1-minute bin, and contain cloud-to-ground lightning stroke data and some cloud flash discharges.

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New Products in CONDUIT: We Need Your Feedback

04 March 2011

In response to a Unidata Users Committee request, Becky Cosgrove, Unidata's NOAA/NCEP contact for CONDUIT, has provided an updated list of NCEP products available through CONDUIT. If you are enjoying the benefits of CONDUIT, please review the additional NCEP products available for distribution.

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