Articles tagged: awipsii

Jul 26, 2023

Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! Today we're going to take a look at another python-awips example notebook. This notebook deals with a special EDEX access method that uses ModelSounding objects in python-awips. We'll see the importance of creating functions and how that allows us to quickly and easily compare output from different datasets.

Jul 12, 2023
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AWIPS 20.3.2-0.4 is a new release for a Beta version of AWIPS.

  • EDEX installation available
  • Menu updates
  • Bug fixes and enhancements
  • And more...
Jun 28, 2023

Welcome back to AWIPS Tips!

Today we're taking the chance to highlight a few colorized GOES products that are produced by the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. The three products we're looking at today are RGB (red-green-blue) combinations for Cloud-Snow Coverage, DEBRA Dust, and GeoColor images.

Jun 14, 2023
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This week we dive back into more details about managing your own EDEX server! If you are currently running and maintaining an EDEX of your own, and you haven't already, please check out our existing AWIPS Tips for EDEX. Today, we're going to talk about how to remove individual grib datasets from your EDEX immediately.

May 31, 2023
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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.

May 17, 2023
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Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! Today we are going to look at how to load two separate image products on the same layer. This is called "Image Combination."

May 3, 2023

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AWIPS 20.3.2-0.2 is a beta release of CAVE. Great news, we've added installers for MacOS and Windows as well as made updates to the Linux and virtual machine option.

Apr 19, 2023
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If you are running your own EDEX and have a shapefile that you use consistently, instead of having to manually import it in CAVE, we'll show you how to import it into the maps database and then add it to the Maps menu.

Apr 5, 2023

Welcome back to AWIPS Tips!

AWIPS 20.3.2-0.2 is a beta release of CAVE. Great news, we've added installers for MacOS and Windows as well as made updates to the Linux and virtual machine option.

Mar 22, 2023

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Today we're going back to CAVE and look at the purpose of different pane displays. The Unidata distribution of CAVE is defaulted to the 1-Pane layout, and the National Weather Service (NWS) version defaults to the 5-pane layout. We will also go over the differences between panes, panels, and editors.