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2021 Community Equipment Awards

30 June 2021

Unidata is happy to announce the Community Equipment Award recipients for 2021. Created under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation, Unidata equipment awards are intended to encourage new members from diverse disciplinary backgrounds in the geosciences to join the Unidata community, and to encourage existing members to continue their active participation, enhancing the community process.

Six institutions received funding this year; read on for details.

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NetCDF operators (NCO) version 5.0.0

23 June 2021

Version 5.0.0 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 NCO project is coordinated by Professor Charlie Zender of the Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine. More information about the project, along with binary and source downloads, are available on the SourceForge project page.

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AWIPS Tips: Explore the CAVE Product Browser

16 June 2021

In this edition of AWIPS Tips, we're exploring the CAVE Product Browser. Did you know that CAVE can access even more datasets than just those listed in the default menus? It can! The complete data inventory is exposed in a side window called the Product Browser. The Product Browser is an explorer-type tree structure that organizes products by category.

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Abstract Deadlines for AMS, AGU Meetings

15 June 2021

The 102th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting in will be held 23-27 January 2022 in Houston, TX. This year's theme is “Environmental Security: weather, water and climate for a more secure world.” The submission deadline for abstracts is 3 August 2021.

The American Geophysical Union's 2021 Fall Meeting in will be held 13-17 December 2021 in New Orleans, LA. This year's theme is “Science is Society.” The submission deadline for abstracts is 4 August 2021.

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AWIPS Tips: Access Model Output with Python-AWIPS

02 June 2021

Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! Today we're talking about data access with python-awips. If you use Python and need data from an EDEX server, python-awips is the package you need. While there are many utilities of python-awips, today we're focusing on accessing model output. We will walk through a brief explanation of the methods needed in succession to create a final 2D array of temperature from the RAP13 model.

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