CAVE 16.1.5 requires a full uninstall/reinstall above 14.4 or 15.1 (just
this once, hopefully) due to fundamental changes in the program executable.
Subsequent updates will be handled by yum without the need to
uninstall/reinstall. The shell script
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/awips2/installCAVE.sh should be used
to install this release as well as all subsequent updates (No client files
will be affected by this since bundles, colormaps, and other configuration
files will stay put in ~/caveData/).
To install/update CAVE for Linux, download and run
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/awips2/installCAVE.sh
To install/update EDEX for Linux, download and run
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/awips2/installEDEX.sh
What's New in 16.1.5:
- Switching the localization site in CAVE Preferences now updates the
side-view maps to the new WFO area of responsibility.
- New general "awips2-localization" RPM obsoletes site-specific
"awips2-localization-OAX" with support for all WFOs.
- Simply running "cave" will launch the program, running the full path
name /awips2/cave/cave.sh is no longer required.
- Full support for UNIWISC McIDAS AREA files, including new support for
- 20km Global Rectilinear IR and WV
- 30km Global Mollweide IR and WV
- Support for HIMAWARI-8 McIDAS AREA files
- Fix for GINI projection error in decoding of Supernational composites
- New colormap defaults for IR and WV imagery; GEMPAK colormaps also
have been added
- New default map projections include Global Mercator, Global Mollweide,
and Regional displays for Alaska, Africa, Antarctica, Aus/NZ, Europe,
Hawaii, Japan, Pacific Ocean, Puerto Rico, and South America.
- Various bug fixes for the GFE Perspective
- New package "awips2-python-gfe" makes available various Python
functions used by GFE which were previously absent.
- Hold-right-click menu on product stack now includes Interpolation
toggle.
- Default display of FNEXRAD composites using data interpolation and
decreased tiling for clearer data display.
- Two-pane toggle added to D2D right-click menu (along with existing
4-pane toggle)
- Two-pane displays are now oriented side-by-side rather than
above-and-below.
- Reconfigured D2D NSHARP plugin display selectable stations
- Reconfigured image export with default timestamp in file name to
prevent overwriting. Files are now exported to /awips2/export/<USER>/
- GFS20 replacing GFS40 in the Models menu
- New METAR precip total plugin colorizes rainfall amounts
- Metar surface winds bundle added to Surface menu
- Reorganization of Surface WATCH/WARN bundles, loadable as
TStorm/Tornado, Flood, Marine, Extreme Wines, and "all". Bundle polygon
contrast has been increased as well.
- Redbook graphics bundles displayed with higher contour contrast
- Complete regional imagery Satellite sub-menu with full product set for
Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Arctic composites.
- New Satellite sub-menus for NOAAport GINI products (GOES East, GOES
West, GOES E/W 10 km Composite, 24 km National Composite, 24 km NH
Composite, Sounder Imagery
- NPP VIIRS Near Constant Contrast bundle composites all available area
for product display.
- ESRL/GSD experimental 3 km HRRR now supported (HRRRX), ingesting on
edex-cloud.unidata.ucar.edu (though still missing some grib parameters)
- Better httpd logging removes the unnecessary reporting of internal
connection (responsible for approx. 90% of httpd log file size), and logs
hostname of client machine, if available.
- Default default purge rule for satellite products preserve 96 frames
(12 day archive for Global IR/WV composites), and 288 frames (24 hours) for
FNEXRAD images.
- GFE server support available for all WFOs, not just OAX (requires a
change to setup.env and edex_camel restart - this does not mean support for
all server sites simultaneously)
- Binlightning, nctaf, and nctext decoders re-enabled.
- Removed all metar/synop-to-Shef processing due to performance problems.
- CAVE operates strictly in practice mode, preventing WarnGen products
from being pushed to a connected EDEX server.
- GEMPAK can not be installed from the AWIPS yum repository (simply "yum
install gempak").
Important links:
- User guide: http://unidata.github.io/awips2/
- On github: github.com/Unidata/awips2
- Submit an issue: https://github.com/Unidata/awips2/issues
- Submit a support request:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/support/requestSupport.jsp
- Python AWIPS data access framework:
http://python-awips.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
