Was Hurricane Sandy a freak combination of weather systems? Or are hurricanes increasing in intensity due to a warming climate? How did this perfect storm make search and rescue so dangerous?
The Unidata Program Center's Jeff Weber is one of the scientists who looks into the causes of hurricane Sandy's behavior in the NOVA documentary Inside the Megastorm, which will air on PBS Sunday, November 18 and Wednesday, November 21.
Update: The entire documentary is available for online viewing on the PBS web site at the above link.
Members of the Unidata Program Center staff will be attending the American Geophysical Union 2012 Fall meeting, December 3-7 2011, in San Francisco. The schedule below lists specific sessions at which UPC staff will be in attendance. See the AGU Fall meeting Scientific Program for additional information on the sessions.
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).
Version 4.2.3 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.
A SAX (Simple API for XML) parser is a particular mechanism for parsing XML documents. Using a SAX parser has the advantage over the DOM-based parser in that it is not necessary to build the explicit DOM tree. On the other hand, it can be difficult to build a SAX parser because it requires management of complex state.
Combining SAX parsing with a GNU Bison generated parser is appealing because it allows the Bison parser to manage all of the state. Additionally, the .y file encapsulates the equivalent of a DTD but in a much more readable form. The combination makes using SAX parsing a lot simpler.
The Unidata Program Center wishes a fond farewell to Robb Kambic, who is forsaking the snow and Chinook winds of Colorado's front range for the mosquitos and hurricane force winds of central Florida.
Robb's tenure as a Unidata software developer began in August of 1993. In the intervening years, he has contributed to a wide variety of Unidata projects, ranging from the Local Data Manager (LDM), data decoders, and the THREDDS Data Server.
Version 4.2.2 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.
The American Meteorological Society's 93rd annual meeting will be held January 6-10, 2012 in Austin, Texas. As in previous years, the Society will sponsor a Career Fair at the beginning of the meeting.
Participating in the AMS Career Fair is the perfect way for your organization to attract the attention of more than 3,000 professionals, recent graduates, and current students expected to attend the AMS Annual Meeting.
The Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS) at the University of Maryland seeks to fill a professional scientific position for its collaborative research as a Cooperative Institute with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This position will be associated with the Mesoscale Modeling Branch and the Data Assimilation Team of the National Weather Service (NWS) National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Environmental Modeling Center (EMC), as well as the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA). The position will be located at the NOAA Climate & Weather Prediction Center in College Park Maryland.
