Due to the current gap in continued funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program Center has temporarily paused most operations. See NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations for details.
21 March 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.
21 March 2011
The THREDDS Data Server version 4.2.4 was made available as the stable release on February 22, 2011. This version is recommended for all users, including production servers. The latest update can be downloaded at https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/thredds.
Version 4.2.4 includes the following changes:
For a complete list of changes, see the Change Log.
CfRadial Extensions for Radar and Lidar Data
17 March 2011
A joint team of developers from NCAR's Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL), NCAR's Research Applications Laboratory (RAL), and UCAR's Unidata are defining an extension to the NetCDF Climate and Forecast (CF) metadata convention. The CfRadial proposal specifies a CF-compliant NetCDF format for radar and lidar moments data in radial (i.e. polar) coordinates.
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Now the advent of these outlandish strangers at such a critical instant as the lowering of the boats from the deck, this had not unreasonably awakened a sort of superstitious amazement in some of the ship's company; but Archy's fancied discovery having some time previous got abroad among them, though indeed not credited then, this had in some small measure prepared them for the event. It took off the extreme edge of their wonder; and so what with all this and Stubb's confident way of accounting for their appearance, they were for the time freed from superstitious surmisings; though the affair still left abundant room for all manner of wild conjectures as to dark Ahab's precise agency in the matter from the beginning.
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