News@Unidata

« Previous page | Main | Next page »

Showing entries tagged [frontpage]

28 March 2024

NSF Unidata Users and Strategic Advisory Committees

NSF Unidata is governed by its community. Our Strategic Advisory and Users committees facilitate consensus-building for future directions of the NSF Unidata Program and establish standards of involvement for the community. Direct involvement in the Program by the academic community helps NSF Unidata stay on top of trends in Earth Systems Science education and research; for example, recent initiatives on Python and cloud-based computing have benefited tremendously from committee advice and involvement.

[Read More]

Posted by Unidata News [ Comments [0] ]

Email this

25 March 2024

Registration is open for the 2024 Pythia Cook-off! This U.S. National Science Foundation-funded hackathon for Cookbook development will grow participants’ Python coding, communication, collaboration, and educational development skills, while expanding the collection of Pythia Cookbooks for the open source, open science community. Pythia Cookbooks are crowd-sourced collections of domain-specific tutorials and exemplar workflows, building on existing Pythia Foundations tutorials. Cookbooks are supported by a rich GitHub-based infrastructure enabling collaborative authoring and automated health-checking to ensure reproducibility.

[Read More]

Posted by Unidata News [ Comments [0] ]

Email this

AWIPS Tips: Customized Contours

20 March 2024

Welcome back to AWIPS Tips!

This week we are going to look at how to customize contours for products in CAVE by changing the styleRules. Customizations include adjusting the color, line type, smoothing, interval, and range by creating a user override of the d2dContourStyleRules.xml file. We will walk through the different options and show an example of a customized contour for model surface temperatures.

[Read More]

Posted by Shay Carter [ Comments [0] ]

Email this

Exploring Indigenous Data Sovereignty

06 March 2024

The concept of Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDS) asserts that data generated by Indigenous peoples, including data generated from their land and resources, should be governed by the people themselves. Environmental observations collected on native lands are one small part of the IDS context, and they were the subject of a recent workshop hosted by the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

[Read More]

Posted by Unidata News

Email this

AWIPS Tips: Exploring Satellite Imagery using Python-AWIPS

06 March 2024

Welcome back to AWIPS Tips!

This week we’re going to dive into a little bit of python-awips to learn more about what satellite data our EDEX has to offer. If this is your first time joining us, it may be helpful to take a quick glance over some of our previous AWIPS Tips blogs about python-awips. To take a deeper look into satellite data, we’ll be highlighting some of the features and cells of the Satellite Imagery example notebook.

[Read More]

Posted by Shay Carter [ Comments [0] ]