AWIPS Tips: Visualizing Upper Air Soundings

AWIPS Tips

Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! Today we’re going to take a look at another python-awips example notebook. This notebook walks users through how to request, modify, and visualize Upper Air Sounding data that is originally in BUFR format. Similar to most of our example notebooks, this one begins by creating an EDEX connection and then setting the data type. In this example we use the corresponding bufrua data type to request the BUFR sounding data.

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MetPy 1.5.0 Released

MetPy

Version 1.5.0 of MetPy, a collection of tools in Python for reading, visualizing, and performing calculations with weather data, has been released. The project aims to mesh well with the rest of the scientific Python ecosystem, including the Numpy, Scipy, and Matplotlib projects, adding functionality specific to meteorology. This release brings a few new features, including the ability to plot fronts and boundaries with appropriate styling as well as parsing WPC surface bulletins.

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2023 MetPy Users Survey

MetPy

The MetPy development team is looking for anyone who has used MetPy to take the 2023 MetPy Users Survey. The survey should only take approximately 5-10 minutes and is completely anonymous.

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NetCDF Fortran 4.6.1

Version 4.6.1 of the netCDF-Fortran library is now available.

The netCDF-Fortran library version 4.6.1 requires the netCDF-C library version 4.9.0 or greater. This release brings refinements and bug testing, and improvements to quantize and zstandard support. You can find the full release notes and source downloads here:

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NetCDF operators (NCO) version 5.1.6

Version 5.1.6 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.

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