Unidata EDEX and CAVE version 15.1.2 are now available.

Our cloud-based data server (edex-cloud.unidata.ucar.edu) has been updated to the latest build and is serving a larger set of data than before, including a subset of MRMS grids.

Read the full article for instructions on updating your existing AWIPS II installation.

The Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI) invites you to participate in a webinar to learn about the 2016 National Water Center (NWC) Summer Institute. The Summer Institute will take place at the University of Alabama and NOAA's National Water Center from June 6 - July 20, 2016; it is a seven week period of intense collaboration at the NWC that is open to incoming and current students, as well as, post-docs.

The webinar, held on March 2nd at 4pm EST and hosted by David Maidment of the University of Texas, will provide an overview of the program and the corresponding opportunities for students as well as answer any questions.

The Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI) is soliciting applications from students who wish to participate in the 2016 National Water Center (NWC) Summer Institute under the auspices of the NWC's Innovator's Program. The Summer Institute will take place at the University of Alabama and NOAA's National Water Center from June 6 - July 20, 2016. The Summer Institute will be led by faculty theme leads and daily oversight will be provided by post-doctoral fellow course coordinators. Following the Summer Institute, students will be selected and invited to attend the CUAHSI Biennial Meeting July 25-27, 2016 to present their work during a special session.

Version 4.5.5 of the netCDF Operators (NCO) has been released. NCO is an Open Source package that consists of a dozen standalone, command-line programs that take netCDF files as input, then operate (e.g., derive new data, average, print, hyperslab, manipulate metadata) and output the results to screen or files in text, binary, or netCDF formats.

In November of 2015, Unidata released CloudIDV, a cloud-optimized version of the IDV. Since then, our community has expressed interest in the underlying application-streaming technology. In the words of one developer, "We all have legacy software that we'd like to support on new devices." Motivated by this observation, we have released CloudStream. CloudStream allows a developer or scientist to easily package software and/or a custom linux environment in such a way that it becomes ready for use in the cloud. Thanks to Docker, building software for use with CloudStream is no more difficult than configuring and building software in any standard Linux environment.