As previously described in this post, the Unidata Program Center's primary THREDDS Data Server (TDS), currently using the domain name "motherlode.ucar.edu" is being phased out in favor of the new domain name "thredds.ucar.edu". The domain name "motherlode.ucar.edu" will not work for TDS access after August 1, 2013.
UPDATE: Please note that this change affects connections to the THREDDS Data Server only. Other services provided by motherlode.ucar.edu will remain in operation until further notice.
No one enjoys a mushy tomato. But beyond aesthetics lies a serious problem for some West African nations, where significant portions of the fresh tomato harvest may be lost during transport from farm to market.
Spatial agro-ecologists from the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente in The Netherlands and elsewhere have used the IDV to analyze the relationship between observed weather conditions andthe microclimate inside truck trailers transporting tomatoes.
The European Geoscience Union (EGU) conference held in Vienna, Austria from 7-12 April, 2013, will feature several sessions dedicated to scientific visualization. In addition to a regular session within the ESSI program, there will be a "splinter meeting" that will concentrate on a demonstration of visualization tools. Attendance is limited, so interested individuals should sign up for the session soon.
The Geosciences Probe of Discovery (GEOpod) is an intuitive, interactive application that allows users to navigate through and explore an immersive 3-D environment created from authentic geoscience data. GEOpod is built on top of Unidata's Integrated Data Viewer (IDV), leveraging its sophisticated features to import and display geoscience data in a teaching environment.
UPDATE: The GEOpod short course will not be held at the Austin AMS meering. The organizers hope to present the course in a different venue in the near future.
GEOpod was created by professors and students from the departments of Computer Science and Earth Sciences at Millersville University. They, along with Unidata Program Center IDV developer Yuan Ho, will be teaching a Short Course — Interactive Immersion Learning: Flying through data onboard the GEOpod — at the upcoming American Meteorological Society annual meeting in Austin, Texas.
Unidata Program Center developer Yuan Ho, along with John Clyne of NCAR's Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL), will once again be presenting a data analysis workshop at the American Geophysical Union's Fall meeting in San Francisco. The workshop will provide an overview of several of the open source software packages that are most relevant to researchers and educators in the geosciences, including Unidata's Integrated Data Viewer (IDV), NCAR's Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, Atmosphere, and Solar Researchers (VAPOR), the Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) from the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, and NCAR's NCAR Command Language (NCL).
IDV 3.1 was released recently. Some of the major new features in this release include simplified capture of multi-view images and movies, enhanced labeling of latitude and longitude lines in map displays, and a new Time Matching feature that allows you to create a seamless animation of multiple displays whose data were collected at different time steps. Read further for additional details on these new features.
