AWIPS 23.4.1-0.2 is a beta release of CAVE for installation on linux, windows, and virtual machines (Windows and Linux). We are currently working on a CAVE installer for MacOS. This release includes a major upgrade for the operating system, running on Rocky 8 Linux – which is a free Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution.
Ana Castaneda Montoya joined the NSF Unidata Program Center as a student summer intern on May 20, 2024; she received her Bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Texas at Dallas the same week. She will be starting her graduate studies at the University of Michigan in August, where she'll pursue a PhD in Climate Science.
Leo Matak joined the NSF Unidata Program Center as a student summer intern on May 20, 2024. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Currently, he is pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Houston, where he is part of the Environmental Fluid Mechanics lab, focusing on atmospheric boundary layer dynamics.
The 105th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting in will be held 12-16 January 2025 in New Orleans, LA. This year's theme is “Towards a Thriving Planet: Charting the Course Across Scales.” The submission deadline for abstracts is 15 August 2024.
The American Geophysical Union's 2024 Fall Meeting in will be held 9-13 December 2024 in Washington, DC. This year's theme is “What's Next for Science.” The submission deadline for abstracts is 31 July 2024.
Today we're going to take a look at some of the most useful shortcuts in CAVE – keyboard hotkeys! Our documentation has an entire page dedicated to defining keyboard shortcuts in CAVE and can be an excellent reference. The keyboard shortcuts on that page are broken down into different times and places where those keys are active while using CAVE. For today's AWIPS Tips though, we'll just focus on some of the D2D Menu Shortcuts.
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a powerful class of deep learning models widely applied in Earth science for image analysis, classification, and regression problems. Leveraging the Keras framework in python, CNNs can efficiently process and extract spatial features from 2D and 3D remote sensing, model output, and other Earth Systems Science (ESS) data types.
Today we're going to take a look at another python-awips example notebook. This notebook demonstrates how to work with radar data by investigating available radar sites and seeing what products are available for a given site. The plots created in this notebook are from NEXRAD 3 algorithm, precipitation, and derived product data, not the base data. If you are not familiar with python-awips, please feel free to check out our documentation or visit previous AWIPS Tips for python-awips.
A new U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) funded faculty travel grant program will support up to 50 early-to-mid career faculty from under-resourced U.S. undergraduate-focused institutions, such as Emerging Research Institutions (ERIs), Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), and community colleges (2YCs) to attend the fall AGU24 annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
