In case you missed it — here's a recap of news from the NSF Unidata Program Center for
the months of May and
June 2025.
(We did not publish an update at the end of May, as Program operations were paused at the time.)
Upcoming deadlines to be aware of:
| 30 July | Abstracts for the AGU Fall Meeting are due. |
| 31 July | Nominations for NSF Unidata governing committee openings are due. |
| 31 July | Nominations for NSF Unidata Users committee graduate student representative are due. |
| 14 August | Abstracts for the AMS 2026 Annual Meeting are due. |
Highlights from May and June:
MetPy 1.7.0 Released
MetPy version 1.7.0 is available.
Running Pretrainined AI-NWP Models, Our Experience at NSF Unidata on Jetstream2
At NSF Unidata, we have successfully implemented and re-used weights from several global AI-NWP (Artificial Intelligence-Numerical Weather Prediction) models (FourCastNet, Pangu) using the NVIDIA earth2mip package.
New eLearning: Supervised Machine Learning Readiness
NSF Unidata announced a new series available now on Unidata eLearning: Supervised Machine Learning Readiness. This learning series is a self-paced, beginner-friendly program designed for Earth systems scientists to explore the core principles of supervised machine learning.
netCDF-Java version 5.8.0 released
The NSF Unidata THREDDS development team released netCDF-Java 5.8.0 on May 8th, 2025. This release contains a number of upgrades to third party libraries, a variety of bug fixes, and several new features and improvements.
NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations
NSF Unidata Return to Operations
The NSF Unidata Program experienced a gap in our funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation.
Welcome Summer Intern Linfeng Li
Linfeng Li joined the NSF Unidata Program Center as a student summer intern on May 19, 2025.
Welcome Summer Intern Jaye Norman
Jaye Norman joined the NSF Unidata Program Center as a student summer intern on May 19, 2025.
NSF Unidata 2025 Community Survey: Final Days to Share Your Thoughts
The NSF Unidata 2025 Community Survey closed on Friday, June 20, 2025.
Abstract Deadlines for AMS, AGU Meetings
The 106th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting in will be held 25-29 January 2026 in Houston, TX. The submission deadline for abstracts is 14 August 2025.
The American Geophysical Union's 2025 Fall Meeting in will be held 15-19 December 2025 in New Orleans, LA. The submission deadline for abstracts is 30 July 2025.
NetCDF operators (NCO) version 5.3.4
Version 5.3.4 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.
On the Developer's Blog
NSF Unidata Program Center developers write regularly on technical topics on the Unidata Developer's Blog.
Governing Committee News
NSF Unidata's Users Committee met virtually over four days in April, 2025. The Users Committee will meet next in the fall of 2025.
NSF Unidata's Strategic Advisory Committee met virtually over four days in April, 2025. The Strategic Advisory Committee will meet next in the fall of 2025.
