31 January 2011
Version 6.9.7 of the Local Data Manager (LDM) was made available on February 1, 2011. This version is recommended for all users. The latest update can be downloaded at https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/ldm/.
For a list of changes between the 6.9.0 version and the current version, see the Change Log.
Note that the LDM installer was upgraded for the 6.9 release, and has a slightly different layout and procedure. See the Installation Instructions for additional details.
February 2011 Status Update: NAWIPS Migration to AWIPS II
31 January 2011
The month of January was extremely busy for the National Weather Services' NCEP Central Operations, according to Chief of Systems Integration Michelle Mainelli. Activities included finalizing the first version of the AWIPS II software, preparing AWIPS II workstations for demonstration at the American Meteorological Society meeting in Seattle, and finalizing the configuration of the AWIPS II test bed located at the World Weather Building in Camp Springs, MD.
"On January 12th, we submitted our AWIPS II baseline NCEP Perspective to the NWS Office of Science and Technology," says Mainelli. "We expect to see the NAWIPS migrated functionality in the AWIPS II release from Raytheon Technical Services by the end of March 2011. NCEP will continue to provide software updates to Unidata until that time."
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The Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) version 2.9u3 was made available on January 14, 2011. This version is recommended for all users. The latest updated can be downloaded at https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/idv/2_9u3/index.jsp.
Version 2.9u3 includes updated netCDF-Java and VisAD versions, Jython functionality to extract longitudes from a NWP grid, an updated Blue Marble display, and several bug fixes. For a complete list of changes, see the Release Notes.
11 January 2011
NetCDF 4.1.2-beta2 Release. Please try version 4.1.2-beta2 of the netCDF C/Fortran/C++ libraries. The 4.1.2 release includes mostly bugfixes and performance enhancements. See the release notes for more information. Please send any feedback to support-netcdf@unidata.ucar.edu.
January 2011 Status Update: NAWIPS Migration to AWIPS II
31 December 2010
According to Michelle Mainelli, Chief of the Systems Integration Branch of the National Weather Service's NCEP Central Operation, the AWIPS II development group remains on schedule in the migration of the NAWIPS software to the AWIPS II architecture.
"The NCEP AWIPS II Test Bed has been successfully installed within our facility by Raytheon Technical Services," says Mainelli. "We are in the process of installing and configuring the software component including setting up the data flow to the system."
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