Editor's note: Shawn Cheeks was a Unidata Summer Intern in 2013 and again in 2014. He is a senior at Marshall University in Huntington, WV, majoring in computer science and applied math with a minor in meteorology. He plans to continue on to graduate school to eventually earn a PhD in atmospheric science.
During my internship last year with Unidata, I developed an Android version of a netCDF Subset Service form. Coming back this year, I wanted to expand my endeavors in mobile development by writing an application that works on all mobile platforms. To do this, I decided to use Apache Cordova because it takes a JavaScript/HTML file and packages it as a native application for any mobile platform. The product of choice this year was Unidata's radar data as it seemed to be a product well suited for mobile users.
Editor's note: Florita Rodriguez is a 2014 Unidata Summer Intern from Marble Falls, TX. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Meteorology from Texas A&M University in May, 2014.
I created this hurricane track IPython notebook for all to enjoy. This project was suggested to me by some Python enthusiasts here at Unidata and while I was familiar with IPython and its notebook feature, this was a great opportunity for me to explore the interactive use provided by IPython interactive widgets and how to create an interactive environment in which National Hurricane Center data could be visualized.
Version 4.4.0 of the netCDF-Fortran library is now available.
Some highlights of the 4.4.0 release:
For 32-bit platforms fixed integer fill parameters, initialized potentially unitialized variables, and provided some missing defaults (Thanks to R. Weed).
Fixed CMake builds on 32-bit platforms.
Added new inq_path and rename_grps functions analogous to corresponding C functions. Added associated tests. (Thanks to R. Weed)
Added support for NF_MPIIO, NF_MPIPOSIX, NF_PNETCDF flags and NF_FILL_UINT. (Thanks to R. Weed)
Fixed potential bug in attribute functions for integer values when Fortran INTEGER*1 or INTEGER*2 types are the same size as C long. (Thanks to R. Weed)
Added test for compiler support of Fortran 2008 ISO_FORTRAN_ENV additions and TS29113 standard extension.
Fixed C_PTR_DIFF_T issue reported by Orion Poplowski. (Thanks to R. Weed)
Version 2.2.16 of the UDUNITS package has been released. This version is recommended for all users. The latest update can be downloaded at https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/udunits.
The Unidata Seminar Series presents a talk by Dr. Stefano Nativi of the National Research Council of Italy (IIA-CNR, Florence Division). The talk, titled GEOSS Common Infrastructure and the Brokering Framework, will describe progress on using service brokering techniques in a federated multidisciplinary data environment as part of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems.
The IDV group recently received a request from a researcher to have the IDV display CF-compliant netCDF trajectory files. The IDV already has some limited capacity to handle these data. However, this particular request requires the IDV handle multiple trajectories in one CF-compliant file, which is currently not supported by the IDV. We would like to assist this researcher with these data.
Three new screencasts related to the IDV have been posted to the Unidata YouTube channel in the past month. Two are contributions from members of the IDV user community, and one was created by Unidata Program Center staff to explain several features of the newly released IDV version 5.0.
