The University of Alaska Fairbanks Department of Atmospheric Sciences and the International Arctic Research Center (IARC) invite applications for a tenure track position at the Assistant/Associate Professor level in the area of Atmospheric Sciences to complement other members of the Atmospheric Science Graduate Program and Atmospheric Science research at IARC, the Geophysical Institute and the College of Natural Science and Mathematics.
In the wake of the U. S. National Science Foundation's award of financial support in response to NSF Unidata's most recent core program funding proposal, there have been several changes at the Program Center. This article attempts to explain the Program's current situation, what changes have been made, and what we are planning to do next.
As part of my summer of 2024 internship I had the privilege of getting involved with some of NSF Unidata's Python projects. My work ranged from creating educational tutorials to adding new functionalities to existing libraries, enhancing the resources available to the community.
I would like to begin by saying that this internship has definitely been one of the top highlights of my Ph.D. journey. I spent most of my working hours implementing the idea of server-side virtual data processing. This means that data on the THREDDS Data Servers (TDS) could be virtually processed without actually modifying the data. As such, the data integrity would remain intact, but it could be optimized for ML/AI.
Version 5.2.7 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.
AWIPS 23.4.1-0.3 is a beta release, with both EDEX and CAVE installation options. This release includes a major upgrade for the operating system, running on Rocky 8 Linux – which is a free Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution.
This release is still in beta since the National Weather Service is still working on their 23.4.1 release to operations and does not have full functionality. Users will have the option of installing their own EDEX with this version, or continue to connect to Unidata's public EDEX (edex-beta.unidata.ucar.edu).
The NSF Unidata THREDDS development team released the THREDDS Data Server (TDS) version 5.5 on July 16th, 2024. This release contains a number of security upgrades to third party libraries, a variety of bug fixes, and several new features and improvements. It is recommended that all TDS users upgrade to this version.
