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Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! This week we are putting a spotlight on Learn AWIPS CAVE, which has moved to Unidata's new eLearning hub, Unidata eLearning. When you create an account with Unidata eLearning, your progress through Learn AWIPS CAVE is saved to your account so you can easily pick up where you left off. Upon completion of all lessons, you will also be awarded a badge on your profile.

To start the course, first go to the Unidata eLearning home page and create a new account. Once your account is created, you will be able to self enroll in Learn AWIPS CAVE, take the questionnaire, and begin learning!

Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! This latest entry in the blog series has to do with another Jupyter Notebook for python-awips. We have previously released blogs about python-awips, specifically to do with accessing data, displaying and saving GOES imagery, and working with map resources. This notebook focuses on accessing and creating a colorized surface temperature plot of the continental United States.

A new minor release (version 18.2.1-4) of AWIPS EDEX has been made for Linux servers. No changes have been made to CAVE since the 18.2.1-3 release, however the version for Linux has been updated to 18.2.1-4.

New release of python-awips: version 18.1.8

AWIPS 18.2.1-3 is a new release to both EDEX and CAVE (on Windows, MacOS, and Centos7/RHEL7). This release of EDEX has several new features and bug fixes including:

• New GOES products
• New version of LDM
• GLM updates
• Station ID updates

This release also has several CAVE updates including:

• Updates to the WarnGen Dialog
• More Watches, Warnings, and Advisories

In this week's AWIPS Tips, we're reflecting on a great year of sharing tips, resources, and announcements with you, the Unidata AWIPS community. All of our posts from 2021 are catalogued below. We're excited to share even more with you in 2022!

Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! This week's topic is another exploration into one of the many features of CAVE's Volume Browser. In previous Volume Browser tips, we've covered Plan Views, Cross Sections, and Time Series, and this week is all about generating model soundings. CAVE can generate a sounding from any point using output from several different models.

Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! This week's tip is about how to use CAVE's NSHARP Display tool for viewing sounding data.

Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! Today we're diving into more capabilities of python-awips! Previously, we've discussed how to access model data and how to access and write out specific GOES imagery. Today, we're switching gears slightly from meteorological data, to focus on how to access and use map data.

We are announcing a new eLearning course covering the fundamentals of CAVE called Learn AWIPS CAVE. This is an asynchronous web course that can be accessed on demand.
This course is designed for new users of CAVE and includes demonstrations, tutorials, activities, assessments, and challenges using CAVE functionality. The activities are designed with undergraduate meteorology students in mind but are suitable for any post-secondary education level.