The AWIPS software was originally developed to run on the RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system. RHEL is not free to use, and because of that NSF Unidata has historically used CentOS as our RHEL operating system of choice.
The MetPy development team is looking for anyone who has used MetPy to take the 2024 MetPy Users Survey. The survey should only take approximately 5-10 minutes and is completely anonymous.
The NSF Unidata server hosted at the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (unidata3.ssec.wisc.edu) will be permanently decomissioned on April 26, 2024.
Those using services provided by unidata3.ssec.wisc.edu can switch to using the servers described in this article.
Unidata offers computer equipment grants to support a variety of projects
The NSF Unidata Users Committee has decided to extend the deadline for the 2024 Equipment Awards solicitation until April 12, 2024. Institutions who submitted proposals by the original March 29 deadline are invited to amend their proposals and resubmit if they feel they would benefit from the extra preparation time. All other aspects of the 2024 program remain as described in the original announcement.
The United States of America will experience its second total solar eclipse of the 21st century on April 8th, 2024. Millions of Americans reside in the path of totality, and thousands of others will travel to experience the surreal midday darkening. Many of those who experienced the 2017 total solar eclipse claim the event was indescribable, breathtaking, and even humbling. For others, it was a nightmare.
Version 5.2.2 of the netCDF Operators (NCO) has been released. NCO is an Open Source package that consists of a dozen standalone, command-line programs that take netCDF files as input, then operate (e.g., derive new data, average, print, hyperslab, manipulate metadata) and output the results to screen or files in text, binary, or netCDF formats.
