Version 4.0.9 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 Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) version 3.0 update 2 is available now. This version is recommended for all users. The latest updated can be downloaded at https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/idv/3_0u2.
NetCDF-Java/CDM version 4.3.8 is available as a development (beta-test) release. Makes significant improvements to the handling of GRIB files, along numerous other enhancements.
For many in the Unidata community -- including Unidata Program Center staff -- the annual American Meteorological Society meeting is a whirlwind event that leaves attendees sorting through new ideas for quite some time after the conference itself has ended. We were gratified that so many community members stopped by Unidata's booth in the exhibit hall to catch up on the latest developments or just talk. But rather than try to touch on everything that happened, here we present some recollections of the meeting from UPC staff members who attended, in no particular order.
The Unidata Users Committee invites you to submit nominations for the Russell L. DeSouza Award for Outstanding Community Service. This Community Service Award honors individuals whose energy, expertise, and active involvement enable the Unidata Program to better serve the geosciences. Honorees personify Unidata's ideal of a community that shares ideas, data, and software through computing and networking technologies.
If you're interested in the AWIPS II project and attending the American Meteorological Society meeting in New Orleans, make some time in your schedule to stop by Unidata's booth in the exhibit hall. Unidata developer Michael James will be providing demonstrations throughout the day, and we'll also be hosting additional demonstrations by project leaders from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction.
Members of the Unidata Program Center staff will be attending the 92nd annual American Meteorology Society meeting, January 22-26 2012, in New Orleans. Unidata will be in Booth 322 in the exhibit hall (map); feel free to stop by to talk with us. The booth will feature live, hands-on demonstrations of Unidata software and services, including a look at the current state of the AWIPS II environment. Come and talk with the developers about what's coming up and what you'd like to see.
On January 10, 2012 the Unidata Policy Committee unanimously approved the following resolution:
Be it resolved that the Polcomm adopts the final version of the Strategic Plan, "Unidata 2020: Geoscience at the Speed of Thought" December 28, 2011.
Unidata's latest strategic plan outlines some of the broad issues faced by community members in their conduct of data-centered Earth System science, and lays out a flexible blueprint for action for the Unidata Program Center staff.
