Unidata's annual Software Training Workshops at the Unidata Program Center in Boulder, Colorado provide training and guidance on the use of Unidata software packages. While the workshops are designed primarily to benefit the academic community, representatives from government agencies and commercial entities are also invited to participate. This year's workshop ran from October 17-28, and saw strong attendance from all three groups.

In recent years we have heard from community members that it is more and more difficult to attend training workshops held at the Program Center in Boulder. As a result, we are asking for your input on the sorts of software training that would be most useful, in the hope of maximizing the benefits for our academic members while continuing to serve the larger community. Click through for a link to our Unidata Software Training Workshop Survey.

Registration for Unidata's 2016 Software Training Workshop has been extended until October 5, 2016. The workshop features a session on using the Python programming language with Unidata technologies, Unidata's display and analysis packages IDV and AWIPS-II (with GEMPAK), as well as the Local Data Manager (LDM)

The workshop will be held October 17 – November 1, 2016. Individual courses last from one to three days.

Unidata's training workshops are developed and presented by the software developers and support staff for each package, so you can be sure to get your questions answered.

Slots are still available at Unidata's 2016 Software Training Workshop. The workshop features an exploration of Python in the context of Unidata technologies, courses on Unidata's display and analysis packages IDV and AWIPS-II (with GEMPAK), as well as courses on data access and management tools including the Local Data Manager (LDM) and the THREDDS Data Server (TDS).

The workshop will be held October 17 – November 1, 2016. Individual courses last from one to three days. Registration is open until September 19, 2016.

LDM 6.13.2 has just been released. It fixes a few bugs and performs better than the previous 6.13 versions. You can view a list of the changes in the CHANGE_LOG.

• Download Page
• Version-Specific Documentation
• LDM Homepage

Please send any questions to support-ldm@unidata.ucar.edu or report issues via the LDM GitHub site.

Version 4.4.1 of the NetCDF-C library is now available. This release provides official support for libhdf5 1.10.0.

Note: netCDF library 4.4.0 or earlier, combined with libhdf5 1.10.0 or greater, will generate netCDF-4 format files that cannot be read by software using earlier versions of libhdf5 (1.8.x), regardless of the version of netCDF.

Read on for additional highlights of this release beyond support for libhdf5 version 1.10.0.