AWIPS 18.2.1-1 is a major update to both EDEX and CAVE (on Windows, MacOS, and Centos7/RHEL7). The linux awips_install.sh script has been updated to remove old versions of CAVE and EDEX before installing new versions and backup some /awips2 configuration files.
The Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) version 6.0 is available now. This is a major release and is recommended for all users.
IDV 6.0 includes a new version of the OpenJDK Java distribution, version 5.4.2 of the netCDF-Java library, and enhanced application certificates and notarization. Enhancements to the IDV display include better grid coverage and cross-boundary subsetting, a enhanced volume rendering features, better text/HTML display, improved image capture quality, and more.
The Unidata program and the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) have a long history of collaboration and cooperation to serve the needs of Unidata community members. The SSEC Satellite Data Services(SDS) group, which provides access to and distribution of real-time and archive weather satellite data, makes limited amounts of archive satellite data available to Unidata's academic community members at no cost via the “Multi-format Client-agnostic File Extraction Through Contextual HTTP” (MCFETCH) system.
In this edition of AWIPS Tips, we are answering questions about CAVE's local cache called caveData. It is helpful for both users and administrators of AWIPS to be familiar with caveData for troubleshooting and maintenance. Let's start by first addressing what caveData is.
Unidata is happy to announce the Community Equipment Award recipients for 2021. 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.
Six institutions received funding this year; read on for details.
In this edition of AWIPS Tips, we're exploring the CAVE Product Browser. Did you know that CAVE can access even more datasets than just those listed in the default menus? It can! The complete data inventory is exposed in a side window called the Product Browser. The Product Browser is an explorer-type tree structure that organizes products by category.
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 is 3 August 2021.
The American Geophysical Union's 2021 Fall Meeting in will be held 13-17 December 2021 in New Orleans, LA. This year's theme is “Science is Society.” The submission deadline for abstracts is 4 August 2021.
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! Today we're talking about data access with python-awips. If you use Python and need data from an EDEX server, python-awips is the package you need. While there are many utilities of python-awips, today we're focusing on accessing model output. We will walk through a brief explanation of the methods needed in succession to create a final 2D array of temperature from the RAP13 model.
Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Unidata Program Center is working with three software development interns via a “virtual internship” program this summer. Even though we're not in the office, we're happy to have these three students with us for the summer of 2021. Click through to read their introductions.
The Committee on Data (CODATA) of the Paris-based International Science Council promotes open data policies, working to advance the interoperability and usability of research data. The Committee is committed to supporting FAIR data principles to improve the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse of digital assets.
Within the CODATA organizational umbrella, Unidata software developer Steven Emmerson has joined the Digital Representation of Units of Measure (DRUM) Task Group, which aims to raise the profile of the digital representation of units of measure in research communities, representative and governing bodies, and with funders. DRUM takes the position that support for consistent digital representations of units of measurement is of far-reaching importance for science, technology, industry, and trade.
