The Unidata netCDF group announces the 4.2.1.1 release of the netCDF C libraries. Version 4.2.1.1 includes fixes for two problems found in version 4.2.1 that we regarded as serious enough to warrant this interim release:
A DAP performance bug in remotely accessing large files (> 2GiB) that also results in an incorrect error message on close
An ncdump bug in CDL output for netCDF-4 string data containing characters that need to be escaped (e.g. newlines, tabs, quotes)
Students in the University of Salento's Advanced Data Management course
Climate Change research is becoming an ever more data intensive and oriented scientific activity. Petabytes of climate data are continuously produced, delivered, accessed, and processed by scientists and researchers at multiple sites at an international level. The Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change (CMCC) and the University of Salento in Italy are using equipment purchased with a Unidata Community Equipment Grant to help students study climate change issues at both global and regional (Mediterranean area) scales.
If you want to write HDF5 files directly without using the netCDF-4 library, or if you want to build a netCDF-4 compatible software layer on top of HDF5, read on.
Richard Ullman of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Science Data Management Branch forwards information on the following two job openings. Applications for these positions will be accepted from Wednesday, August 01, 2012 to Thursday, August 16, 2012.
The 2012 Unidata Users Workshop took place July 9-13 at NCAR's Mesa Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. The workshop's theme — Navigating Earth System Science Data — encompassed topics that drew speakers and participants from across the atmospheric and other geosciences communities.
Twenty-six presenters from the Unidata community shared their insights on doing science in an environment of expanding data availability with the nearly 100 workshop attendees. The talks ranged from high-level descriptions of big initiatives like the National Science Foundation's Earth Cube, Global modeling at NOAA, and the joint NOAA-NASA GOES-R satellite program to hands-on demonstrations of data analysis tools including python, GrADS, Unidata's Integrated Data Viewer, and the still-in-development AWIPS-II system.
