In partnership with OPeNDAP Inc., Unidata has received a three-year award grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in order to better align, link and eventually integrate software that the two organizations independently offer as extensible, open-source infrastructure for scientific data exchange.
The OPeNDAP-Unidata Linked Servers project (OPULS) aims to adapt OPeNDAP and Unidata server systems for greater conformance, linkage, and eventual integration, along the way demonstrating how one group can capitalize on advances achieved by the other.
Dr. Peter Griffith is a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the coordinator of the North American Carbon Program, and NASA's representative to Unidata's Policy committee. He created the educational video The Carbon Crisis in 90 Seconds, and shared it with Unidata committee members and staff at this week's joint User's and Policy committee meeting.
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The National Science Foundation's EarthCube project continues to gain momentum, with nearly 500 participants engaging in lively electronic discussion on the EarthCube community web site.
The Unidata Program Center has received a commendation from the National Weather Service's Spaceflight Meteorology Group, thanking the program for providing the Local Data Manger software and technical support for both the LDM and McIDAS packages. Over the course of the Space Shuttle program, the LDM was used to transport observational and experimental data from a variety of sources, including the NWS and the University of Wisconsin Space Science and Engineering Center.
According to Scott Jacobs, acting chief of the NCEP Systems Integration Branch, NCEP Central Operations (NCO) continued its work on the National Centers Perspective (NCP) client software in September in preparation for forecaster testing, currently scheduled for November. "The development of the required functionality is coming together and we will be conducting full system tests in October to suss out any final issues or bugs that would affect the user experience during their testing," said Jacobs.
