The 2018 AGU Fall Meeting will be held 10-14 December 2018 in Washington, DC. This year the Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI) section will include a session that may be of special interest to Unidata community members: “IN039: Goldilocks and Geoscience Cyberinfrastructure: Challenges and Opportunities for Increasing Engagement of Geoscientists in Cyberinfrastructure Efforts, and Finding the balance between community-led efforts and top-down direction.”

Isentropic surface viewed in IDV 5.5

The Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) version 5.5 is now available. This is a major release and is recommended for all users. Version 5.5 incorporates several new analysis and display types, notably features for isentropic analysis, scatter analysis, and display of data from the GOES-16 Geostationary Lightning Mapper. In addition, the release includes updates to existing features and incorporates the latest netCDF-Java library.

Read on for more on the major new features in IDV 5.5.