Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! This week's tip is all about working with the Points and Baselines tools. These tools are interactive reference graphics in a map editor that we use for creating any non-plan view display type in the Volume Browser. Watch the video below for a demonstration and a few tips for working with these two tools.
This event's registration is now closed. Announcing the next offering of the Introduction to MetPy virtual workshop! This 4-hour interactive workshop is designed to introduce participants to the MetPy Python package and accessing data products made available by Unidata. If you or someone you know has an interest in getting started with MetPy workflows, this is an optimal place to start.
The Unidata Program Center is pleased to welcome new members to the program's governing committees. Committee members serve three-year terms, meeting twice each year to provide feedback on the effectiveness of the Unidata Program and advise staff on issues facing the university community. Appointments reflect the range of large and small colleges and universities with undergraduate and graduate emphases where Unidata systems are in use. Read on for brief introductions to the scientists joining Unidata's committees.
The 102th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting in will be held 23-27 January 2022 in Houston, TX. This year's theme is “Environmental Security: weather, water and climate for a more secure world.” The submission deadline for abstracts has been changed to 8 September 2021.
The Unidata THREDDS Development Team released version 5.4.2 of the netCDF-Java/Common Data Model (CDM) library on August 27th, 2020. The 5.4.2 includes various bug fixes, dependency upgrades (some related to security), build/doc infrastructure changes, and updates/improvements to GRIB reading capabilities.
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! Today we're going to go over a brief overview of the backend component of AWIPS: EDEX. EDEX is the Environmental Data Exchange system that comprises the server side of AWIPS; it handles functions such as requesting raw data, decoding and ingesting data, storing processed data, and dealing with data requests from CAVE and python-awips connections.
