NOAA has announced that its Wind Profiler Network (NPN) will be decommissioned this year. NOAA's first step in this process will be to deactivate the NPN data feed to NWS websites and the Unidata IDD network. As a result, CONUS wind profiler data in the IDD FSL2 feed will also cease on or about August 30, 2014.

Read on for the text of the NOAA Profiler Network Service Change Notice announcing the removal of the data feed.

The Unidata Seminar Series presents a talk by Dr. Stefano Nativi of the National Research Council of Italy (IIA-CNR, Florence Division). The talk, titled GEOSS Common Infrastructure and the Brokering Framework, will describe progress on using service brokering techniques in a federated multidisciplinary data environment as part of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems.

Three new screencasts related to the IDV have been posted to the Unidata YouTube channel in the past month. Two are contributions from members of the IDV user community, and one was created by Unidata Program Center staff to explain several features of the newly released IDV version 5.0.

The National Weather Service is investigating ways to make greater amounts of data available to the geoscience community. Read on for additional information and ways to provide your feedback.

Version 4.4.4 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.

The Continuously Operating Caribbean Observational Network (COCONet) project, funded by the National Science Foundation, seeks applicants for two graduate research fellowships starting in August or September of 2014. The COCONet Graduate Fellowships provide individual awards between $5,000 and $10,000 per year for a maximum of 2 years to support solid Earth or atmospheric science graduate research projects conducted at a U.S. institution of higher education. The research projects must be within the COCONet footprint or directly use data from the COCONet GPS stations and/or meteorological sensors.

The Unidata Program Center is pleased to announce its 2014 Software Training Workshop. The workshop features Unidata's display and analysis packages GEMPAK (with an introduction to AWIPS-II) and the IDV, as well as data access and management tools including the Local Data Manager (LDM) and the THREDDS Data Server (TDS). This year's workshop will also include a session on using the Python programming language with Unidata technologies.