The NSF Unidata server hosted at the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (unidata3.ssec.wisc.edu) will be permanently decomissioned on April 26, 2024.
Those using services provided by unidata3.ssec.wisc.edu can switch to using the servers described in this article.
Unidata offers computer equipment grants to support a variety of projects
The NSF Unidata Users Committee has decided to extend the deadline for the 2024 Equipment Awards solicitation until April 12, 2024. Institutions who submitted proposals by the original March 29 deadline are invited to amend their proposals and resubmit if they feel they would benefit from the extra preparation time. All other aspects of the 2024 program remain as described in the original announcement.
The United States of America will experience its second total solar eclipse of the 21st century on April 8th, 2024. Millions of Americans reside in the path of totality, and thousands of others will travel to experience the surreal midday darkening. Many of those who experienced the 2017 total solar eclipse claim the event was indescribable, breathtaking, and even humbling. For others, it was a nightmare.
Version 5.2.2 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.
NSF Unidata is governed by its community. Our Strategic Advisory and Users committees facilitate consensus-building for future directions of the NSF Unidata Program and establish standards of involvement for the community. Direct involvement in the Program by the academic community helps NSF Unidata stay on top of trends in Earth Systems Science education and research; for example, recent initiatives on Python and cloud-based computing have benefited tremendously from committee advice and involvement.
Registration is open for the 2024 Pythia Cook-off! This U.S. National Science Foundation-funded hackathon for Cookbook development will grow participants' Python coding, communication, collaboration, and educational development skills, while expanding the collection of Pythia Cookbooks for the open source, open science community. Pythia Cookbooks are crowd-sourced collections of domain-specific tutorials and exemplar workflows, building on existing Pythia Foundations tutorials. Cookbooks are supported by a rich GitHub-based infrastructure enabling collaborative authoring and automated health-checking to ensure reproducibility.
This week we are going to look at how to customize contours for products in CAVE by changing the styleRules. Customizations include adjusting the color, line type, smoothing, interval, and range by creating a user override of the d2dContourStyleRules.xml file. We will walk through the different options and show an example of a customized contour for model surface temperatures.
