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Unidata staff participate in numerous scientific conferences to talk with scientists, educators, and students about Unidata offerings.

Unidata academic community members can retrieve archived satellite data from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's SSEC.

Unidata regional workshops aim to help the atmospheric science community understand and use the Python ecosystem.

Unidata tools like the IDV help visualize many types of geoscience data. Here an image of the COSMIC data set shows individual soundings derived from GPS radio occultation.

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AWIPS Tips: Getting Started With the NSHARP Display Tool
November 17, 2021

Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! This week's tip is about how to use CAVE's NSHARP Display tool for viewing sounding data.
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AWIPS Tips: Load Map Resources and Topography using Python-AWIPS
November 3, 2021

Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! Today we're diving into more capabilities of python-awips! Previously, we've discussed how to access model data and how to access and write out specific GOES imagery. Today, we're switching gears slightly from meteorological data, to focus on how to access and use map data.
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Read more in the News@Unidata blog

THREDDS Data Server version 5.0 Released
September 20, 2021
THREDDS Data Server (stable) / netCDF-Java (TDS Support) Version 4.6.17 Released
September 13, 2021
netCDF-Java library version 5.4.2 Released
August 27, 2021
Offer: Unidata Science Gateway JupyterHub Resources Available for Fall 2021 Courses
August 23, 2021
LDM 6.13.14 Released
August 4, 2021

Software News

Updates and other news about Unidata software packages

TDS Users: Update Your Configuration Now
October 20, 2021
IDV Users: Please Update to IDV 6.0+
October 18, 2021
THREDDS Data Server version 5.0 Released
September 20, 2021

Data

The Unidata Program center makes a wide variety of near-real-time and archive geoscience data and model output available to the university community. See the Data page for an overview of the available data types and access methods.

Mesoscale model output.