MetPy 0.7.0 has been released. This release has a wide collection of new features as well as minor bug fixes, including several contributions from our community. For full release notes see the GitHub Release Page.
In this week's MetPy Monday, we talk about the most recent release of MetPy, 0.7. This release saw a lot of work put into calculations, including some changes and new capabilities for kinematics functions that involve taking derivatives of fields. We also want to thank all of the community members (9 in total!) who contributed Pull Requests to this release.
If you'll be attending the 98th annual American Meteorology Society meeting, 7-11 January 2018 in Austin, be sure stop by Unidata's booth in the exhibit hall (Booth 520). Software developers and other staff from the Unidata Program Center will be on hand to chat any time the exhibit hall is open. If you're especially interested in seeing a live demonstration of a particular Unidata software package, check the following schedule and time your visit accordingly.
In addition, Unidata staff are presenting talks and posters throughout the conference. If you haven't already, check out the Unidata Staff Conference Schedule.
Happy New Year from all of use at the Unidata Program Center! In case you missed it — here's a recap of news from the Unidata Program Center for the month of December, 2017.
Version 4.7.1 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.
Members of the Unidata Program Center staff will be attending the 98th annual American Meteorology Society meeting, 7-11 January 2018 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas. Unidata will be in Booth 520 in the exhibit hall; feel free to stop by to talk with us. The booth will feature live, hands-on demonstrations of Unidata software and services, including a look at the current state of the AWIPS, IDV, MetPy, and THREDDS Data Server packages. Come and talk with the developers about what's coming up and what you'd like to see.
Read on for a schedule that lists selected sessions at which Unidata staff (and summer interns) will be presenting or attending. See the AMS meeting Conference Program for additional information on the sessions.
Unidata offers equipment grants to support a variety of projects
The Unidata Program Center is pleased to announce the opening of the 2018 Unidata Community Equipment Awards solicitation. Created under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation, Unidata equipment awards are intended to encourage new members from diverse disciplinary backgrounds in the geosciences to join the Unidata community, and to encourage existing members to continue their active participation, enhancing the community process. For 2018, a total of $100,000 is available for awards; proposals for amounts up to $20,000 will be considered.
Past recipients of Unidata equipment awards have used the grants to procure equipment for data sharing, to create interactive data visualization laboratories, and to encourage the use of Unidata software packages in research and education.
