NSF Unidata Software and Data Support

Mailing Lists

NSF Unidata provides topical mailing lists to enable NSF Unidata users to exchange information freely on topics of mutual interest. NOTE: Anyone posting to a list in an attempt to advertise or sell goods/services will be immediately unsubscribed and banned from the list.
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awips2-users
@unidata.ucar.edu
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The AWIPS Users mailing list provides a way for participating individuals to communicate with each other about the UPC AWIPS releases.
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community
@unidata.ucar.edu
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Announcements from the UPC concerning advocacy issues, newsletters, software, workshops, special community meetings, equipment awards, and important data issues. Note: this is an announcement list only. No posting is allowed to this list.
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conduit
@unidata.ucar.edu
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Working collaboratively with NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS), National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (in the early years), and the NSF Unidata Program Center (UPC), and with cooperation from the university community, NSF Unidata's Internet Data Distribution (IDD) has been used for distribution of CONDUIT high resolution model data sets. The data consist of a substantial set of the data made available on servers at the NCEP and at NWS.
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data-curation
@unidata.ucar.edu
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This mailing list is for community discussion centered on the curation of NSF Unidata-provided data. Topics include the provenance of observation station metadata, usage of various data formats, and processing of NSF Unidata-provided feeds as related to both current use and long-term storage of the data.
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data-service-announce
@unidata.ucar.edu
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This mailing list is for announcements about outages or upcoming changes to data servers operating at the UPC (IDD, TDS, RAMADDA, ADDE, EDEX). Note: this is an announcement list only. No posting is allowed to this list.
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gembud
@unidata.ucar.edu
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The gembud (GEMPAK buddy) mailing list is a special interest list for users of the GEneral Meteorological PAcKage ( GEMPAK) developed by NASA and NCEP (formerly NMC). Subscribers to gembud include users at NSF Unidata sites, government sites and commercial users, including the developers at NCEP, NASA, and NSF Unidata. gembud is used primarily for discussions of intermediate to advanced GEMPAK issues, including topics such as using research datasets, developing local extensions, and customizing for site specific uses.
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idd-brasil
@unidata.ucar.edu
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The idd-brasil email list is akin to the ldm-users email list. It was created for South American IDD participants so they could correspond with each other about IDD related issues in their native languages which are either Portugese or Spanish.
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idvdevelopers
@unidata.ucar.edu
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A special interest list for developers using the Integrated Data Viewer 3D visualization application framework.
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idvusers
@unidata.ucar.edu
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This mailing list is intended for discussion of IDV software including installation, setup, and use.
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ldm-users
@unidata.ucar.edu
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This is an unmoderated list for announcements, discussions, bug reports, and questions about the LDM software and NSF Unidata's Internet Data Distribution (IDD) system. It is also the main list for general data requests when data have been missed (other users will help replace the missing data). Typical postings include discussions on using the LDM; discussions of issues related to porting to various platforms; information about changes to stations; and discussion of issues and priorities affecting the further development of the LDM and the IDD.
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mcidas-x
@unidata.ucar.edu
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This is a mailing list to facilitate user interactions about subjects of mutual interest to McIDAS users. Typical uses of the list include announcements of new McIDAS releases, bug fixes and down times for the McIDAS mainframe at SSEC; verifying that the McIDAS data stream is running; user requests for unusual, historic data sets, information on hardware configurations and for help programming new McIDAS modules, using McIDAS commands, or importing non-McIDAS data. This list also provide the mechanisms for community activities such as contributing scripts and new routines to the community and even posting job openings requiring familiarity with McIDAS.
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needdata
@unidata.ucar.edu
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This list is used to request missing or retrospective data. In the spirit of community that has made NSF Unidata a success, subscribers help each other by supplying data that they have available (note that you must be subscribed to the list to post a request). Please be reasonable in your requests; don't expect someone to dig out six months of radiosonde data from 20 years ago.
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netcdf-java
@unidata.ucar.edu
High list traffic
This mailing list is intended for announcements and discussion among developers using the Java netCDF packages, including ucar.nc2, ucar.nc2.dods, and ucar.ma2 and the older ucar.netcdf and ucar.multiarray packages.
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netcdfgroup
@unidata.ucar.edu
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netcdfgroup is an unmoderated mailing list for announcements, discussions, bug reports, and questions about netCDF software. Typical postings include announcements of new versions, patches, and bug fixes; questions about representing specific data relationships using the netCDF model; general discussions about scientific data access, including the use of other interfaces; questions about porting the software to new platforms; and discussion of issues and priorities affecting the further development of the netCDF interfaces and software.
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noaaport
@unidata.ucar.edu
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This mailing list provides an opportunity for users to exchange information regarding the installation and operation of a local NOAAPORT receiver and data ingestion site. NSF Unidata makes its locally developed downlink and LDM-ingestion software freely available as unsupported software, along with information regarding specific hardware in use.
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python-users
@unidata.ucar.edu
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The python-users list provides up-to-date news, examples, and tutorials for python to the geosciences and meteorological community. This list also serves to summarize python development efforts at NSF Unidata.
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suominet
@unidata.ucar.edu
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This mailing list consists of individuals participating, or interested in, the SuomiNet project.
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thredds
@unidata.ucar.edu
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A mailing list for users of the THREDDS Data Server including installation, setup, and use.
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udunits
@unidata.ucar.edu
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A mailing list for users of the UDUNITS-2 and legacy UDUNITS packages. Questions about installation, use, and general support should be directed to this list. New UDUNITS releases will be announced on this mail list.
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visad
@unidata.ucar.edu
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The visad mailing list is a special interest list for users of the VisAD library. Users are encouraged to send questions and problems to the list to get help from others in the VisAD community.
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