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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.
There's a nice presentation on it from late last year. http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/committees/usercom/2007OctMtg/TuellJune2007Partners.ppt And one from NCEP presented in the fall: http://www.ecmwf.int/newsevents/meetings/workshops/2007/MOS_11/presentations_files/Schotz.pdf I don't see the words "going away" in there, I just think that 1) it's an unknown entity right now and 2) might be more complex than just downloading a new binary so 3) if you want to be sure you can read GEMPAK files in 10 years, you'll be safe with IDV. Rob
From: gembud-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gembud-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Mullenax Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 8:33 PM To: gembud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gembud] GEMPAK going away in 3-5 years? I just happened to be reading on the Unidata site about IDV and GEMPAK grids when I was alarmed to come upon this statement: "The second pressing issue is the impending transition of NAWIPS/GEMPAK to AWIPS2 in the next 3-5 years. At this point, it is unknown how that will impact Unidata's GEMPAK users, but the committee thought that having IDV support GEMPAK data files would be a way for GEMPAK users to transition to the IDV if they wanted."
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