The Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) version 3.0 is a new major version of the IDV. This version is recommended for all users. The latest updated can be downloaded at https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/idv/3_0.

This is a new major version of the IDV. New feature highlights include:

• Grid ensemble viewing capability and diagnostic functions
• Hovmoller display capability
• Improved VisAD contour labels in an effort to improve publication  quality graphics
• IDV memory allocation is now automatically done according to the user'smachine specifications
• Parameter as topography display
• Adding LOGO
• etc...

For a complete list of changes, see the Release Notes.

The UCAR Research Applications Laboratory (RAL) has released version 1.4 of Nujan, a pure Java library for writing HDF5 and NetCDF4 files. Nujan is 100% open source and is released under the MIT license. Nujan is intended to be useful in situations where portability and a simplified development process are more important than access to the complete HDF5 feature set.

If you're looking for geeky street cred, it doesn't hurt to have your car's license plate featured in Network World magazine's World's Geekiest License Plates feature.

Russ Rew's (suddenly) famous NetCDF license plate.

Clear, concise, and to the point, Unidata Program Center developer Russ Rew's "NETCDF" plate holds its own in the company of eternal questions ("R2WHRU") and verities ("COS 0 = 1") expressed in the abbreviated language of the automobile license plate. And while it may require more explanation than the easily recognizable "MICROSOFT", it uses its powers only for good — unlike, say, "RM -RF /".

The NOAA Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites North Carolina (CICS-NC) is seeking a Meteorologist / Computer Scientist / Research Associate to work in Asheville, NC, in collaboration with scientists at the NOAA National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). The successful candidate will provide hands-on computer programming and software engineering support for the National Climate Model Portal (NCMP) in the development, implementation, and tools for scientific climate data access, and interoperability.

NCEP Central Operations (NCO) continued to migrate NAWIPS functionality into the AWIPS II system during the month of July, according to NCO Chief of Systems Integration Michelle Mainelli. "NCO also spent time testing the automated data flow from the Central Computing System to the AWIPS II Test Bed located in the World Weather Building," says Mainelli. Test data includes NCO-provided model data and observational data types including radar mosaics and NCEP-specific satellite imagery.