According to Scott Jacobs, acting chief of the NCEP Systems Integration Branch, NCEP Central Operations (NCO) continued its integration of NAWIPS functionality into AWIPS II during August. "The main forucs is now to make the system stable and ready for forecaster testing in November," says Jacobs. "This includes collecting, decoding and storing more data types. We have emphasized getting more numerical model grid data ingested into the database."
NCAR's Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) Research Data Archive (RDA) contains a large and diverse collection of meteorological and oceanographic observations, operational and reanalysis model outputs, and remote sensing datasets to support atmospheric and geosciences research, along with ancillary datasets, such as topography/bathymetry, vegetation, and land use.
CISL's Data Support Section, which manages the Research Data Archive, recently announced that users of some subsets of the archived data can request files in NetCDF format.
ISU student Ryan Lueck uses the IDV to display data from ISU's THREDDS server.
The Iowa State University Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences maintains an extensive archive of meteorological data, including textual information (severe weather statements and other National Weather Service products), numerical model output in gempak format, gif images of weather maps created daily since 2006, and gempak-format surface and upper air data going back to 1933, much of which was provided to us by NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory. For the past year or two, we have made NMQ estimates of precipitation available on the archive as well.
The UCAR Research Applications Laboratory (RAL) has released version 1.4 of Nujan, a pure Java library for writing HDF5 and NetCDF4 files. Nujan is 100% open source and is released under the MIT license. Nujan is intended to be useful in situations where portability and a simplified development process are more important than access to the complete HDF5 feature set.
The NOAA Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites North Carolina (CICS-NC) is seeking a Meteorologist / Computer Scientist / Research Associate to work in Asheville, NC, in collaboration with scientists at the NOAA National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). The successful candidate will provide hands-on computer programming and software engineering support for the National Climate Model Portal (NCMP) in the development, implementation, and tools for scientific climate data access, and interoperability.
NCEP Central Operations (NCO) continued to migrate NAWIPS functionality into the AWIPS II system during the month of July, according to NCO Chief of Systems Integration Michelle Mainelli. "NCO also spent time testing the automated data flow from the Central Computing System to the AWIPS II Test Bed located in the World Weather Building," says Mainelli. Test data includes NCO-provided model data and observational data types including radar mosaics and NCEP-specific satellite imagery.
