Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! This week we're going to take a bit of a deep dive into a useful feature in CAVE: sampling. If you are new to AWIPS Tips, you can take a look at one of our first blogs, which also very briefly touches on sampling at the very end of the blog.

The Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) version 6.2 is available now.

This is a major release and is recommended for all users. Read on for details on the changes and links to download the package.

2023 Users Workshop Attendees

The 2023 Unidata Users Workshop, with the theme Storytelling with Earth Systems Science Data: Challenges and Opportunities for Effective, Ethical, and Reproducible Science , took place June 5-8 Boulder, Colorado and online. The Unidata Users Committee hosted the workshop to advance our collective ability to tell effective and ethical stories using Earth System Science Data. The challenge of storytelling with our data was infused throughout the event; workshop attendees ranging from graduate students to senior scientists explored ways to communicate the meaning of scientific ideas in effective and ethical ways, using a variety of different kinds of data, and taking advantage of new tools like Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML).

Since 2018, Unidata has been offering JupyterHub resources tailored to the instructional requirements of university atmospheric science classes through the Science Gateway project. For the fall 2023 term, Unidata is once again offering universities (or individual instructors) access to cloud-based JupyterHub servers tailored to the requirements of university atmospheric science courses and workshops. Unidata will work with you to customize the technologies and data requirements for your class. By using the Unidata Science Gateway, instructors can add Jupyter notebooks used in their coursework to a dedicated JupyterHub hosted using Unidata's resources in the NSF Jetstream cloud. Once logged in to the JupyterHub, individual students access pre-configured computing environments that allow them to work with the notebooks interactively, making and saving their own alterations to existing notebooks or creating their own new notebooks.

MetPy 1.5.1 has been released with a few bug fixes for 1.5.0, including fixing reversed stationary fronts.

Erin Rhoades

Erin Rhoades joined the Unidata Program Center as a student summer intern on May 22, 2023. She is a professional meteorology major pursuing a minor in mathematics; she is in her fourth undergraduate year at Metropolitan State University of Denver (MSU).

Jessica Souza

Jessica Souza joined the Unidata Program Center as a student summer intern on May 22, 2023. She completed her undergraduate in Meteorology at the University of São Paulo and her Master's degree in Atmospheric Science at Texas Tech University. Currently, she is pursuing a PhD in Geosciences with a minor in Mathematics at Texas Tech University.

Jhamieka Greenwood

Jhamieka Greenwood joined the Unidata Program Center as a student summer intern on May 29, 2023. After receiving a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Florida A&M University, she worked with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection before earning a Master's degree in Computational Science from Florida State University (FSU). Jhamieka is now pursuing a PhD in Computational Science at FSU.

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.

Version 4.6.1 of the netCDF-Fortran library is now available.

The netCDF-Fortran library version 4.6.1 requires the netCDF-C library version 4.9.0 or greater. This release brings refinements and bug testing, and improvements to quantize and zstandard support. You can find the full release notes and source downloads here: