In March of 2021, the Unidata Program Center made the community aware that it no longer had software development resources available to support the continued use and evolution of GEMPAK. Following discussions with community members, Unidata published A Proposal for Community Support of GEMPAK, laying out some history of the package and the support situation, and proposing a way forward. This post describes the current situation and includes information about the most current community supported release.
The Unidata program has been providing the geoscience community with access to and technical support for the GEMPAK software package for nearly thirty years. This post describes the current circumstances surrounding Unidata's support for GEMPAK, and suggests some possible future actions to ensure continued community access to this resource.
GOES16 and GOES17 ABI products are distributed in NetCDF4 formatted files, and GEMPAK as of release 7.5.1 can now read and display these products in their native formats (it is no longer needed to convert netCDF to McIDAS area format to display in GEMPAK).
GEMPAK 7.3.1 is available as source code, 64-bit Linux binaries, and an OS X binary tarball. The most significant updates in this release are to GEMPAK's Python scripts which retrieve data from an AWIPS EDEX server.
7.3.1 binary and source code releases are available at
