Version 5.3.6 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.
UCAR has scheduled a power down and test of their electrical switchgear for Oct 18th 6AM through Oct 19th 6PM 9 (this weekend). This will result in an outage in some NSF Unidata services including mailing lists, user support and rtstats.
The IDD, NOAAport, GOES-East, and GOES-West data ingest, ADDE, thredds.ucar.edu, motherlode.ucar.edu, and atm.ucar.edu are expected to continue uninterrupted during this time.
NSF Unidata is happy to announce the Community Equipment Award recipients for 2025. Created under the sponsorship of the U.S. National Science Foundation, NSF Unidata equipment awards are intended to encourage new members from diverse disciplinary backgrounds in the geosciences to join the NSF Unidata community, and to encourage existing members to continue their active participation, enhancing the community process.
Brian Blaylock from the United States Naval Research Laboratory has been awarded the 2025 Russell L. DeSouza Award by the NSF Unidata Users committee. The DeSouza Award honors “substantive and sustained contributions of energy and expertise to the geosciences community that reflect the ideals of the NSF Unidata Program's mission” to better serve the geosciences.
Version 5.3.5 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.
The NSF Unidata THREDDS development team released the THREDDS Data Server (TDS) version 5.7 on September 23rd, 2025. This release contains a number of security upgrades to third party libraries, a variety of bug fixes, and several new features and improvements. It is recommended that all TDS users upgrade to this version.