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NSF Unidata Program Center. NSF Unidata exists to serve a community of researchers and educators dedicated to advancing the frontiers of Earth Systems science with data access, tools (e.g. NetCDF, AWIPS, IDV, MetPy, THREDDS, LDM), and community support.
In conjunction with the AWS Open Datasets team, we are changing the AWS S3 bucket that contains up-to-date NEXRAD Level II archive data. There is a new bucket name and SNS notification topic, but no other changes. The legacy bucket name will be discontinued September 1, 2025. buff.ly/WVBvt26
07.08.2025 19:07 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2
New AWIPS Tips: AWIPS Production Release v23.2.1-1
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✨The 2025 NSF Unidata Community Survey closes this Friday!✨
Take 15 minutes to share your insights and help guide NSF Unidata’s efforts in the coming years. It will really help us understand your Earth science data needs.
Take the Survey: arcg.is/zLOSW
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✨There’s still time to share your voice in the 2025 NSF Unidata Community Survey, closing June 20!✨
Help shape how we support the Earth sciences community. The survey should take no more than 15 minutes, and will really help us understand your needs.
🔗 Survey: arcg.is/zLOSW
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We at NSF Unidata are pleased to announce that we have now received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the next year of our five-year award. This allows us to end the current furlough of our staff and resume our operations. buff.ly/GafcZts
02.06.2025 19:00 — 👍 208 🔁 57 💬 2 📌 12
✨There’s still time to share your voice in the 2025 NSF Unidata Community Survey!✨
As our program center plans for future work, your feedback is essential to ensure we’re meeting the evolving needs of the Earth systems science community.
🔗 Take the Survey: arcg.is/zLOSW
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✨Calling on our community: your feedback fuels our future✨
The 2025 Unidata Community Survey is still accepting responses. By sharing your experience and ideas, you help us return better prepared to serve the Earth systems science community.
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✨Reminder: The 2025 NSF Unidata Community Survey is still accepting responses✨
Your input is vital to help shape how our program center supports the Earth systems science community, especially as we prepare to resume work.
🔗 Take the Survey: arcg.is/zLOSW
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Due to the current gap in funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program is pausing most operations effective 12 May 2025. Nearly all staff will be furloughed until funds from our existing NSF grant become available. For more information, see buff.ly/d2TC1Oy
09.05.2025 16:00 — 👍 61 🔁 54 💬 4 📌 29Want to see more learning opportunities like this in the future? Interested in furthering your machine learning skills? Let us know by filling out the 2025 NSF Unidata Community Survey!
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📝New eLearning: Supervised Machine Learning Readiness 📝
Get started with ML in the Earth systems sciences with this self-paced no- and low-code learning series. Enroll for free today on NSF Unidata eLearning!
elearning.unidata.ucar.edu/course/view....
Our NSF Unidata team implemented AI-NWP models on Jetstream2 cloud resources! We've shown that using FourCastNet and Pangu on Jetstream2's GPU capabilities can generate a global forecast in under 20 seconds. See our complete findings and implementation guide in the full blog post: buff.ly/kqpvqmp
07.05.2025 18:43 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
MetPy 1.7.0 is out! Highlights include saturation vapor pressure (including over ice) and LCL calculations, automated high/low identification, and clients for accessing S3 archives of NEXRAD L2/L3, GOES, and ML weather prediction output (from NOAA/CIRA), and more! github.com/Unidata/MetP...
01.05.2025 20:10 — 👍 22 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
✨The 2025 NSF Unidata Community Survey is now live! ✨
Share your insights, support community progress.
Take 15 minutes to complete the survey, and as a thank you, you'll have the chance to enter a drawing for an NSF Unidata swag bag.
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Want a clean way to combine a Skew-T and time series in Python?
This week’s #MetPyMonday shows how to wrangle GridSpec for a tight layout with MetPy + Siphon. youtu.be/fzEJvnaXYJw?...
The 2025 NSF Unidata Community Survey is coming next week!
By participating in the survey, you'll also have the chance to enter a drawing for a NSF Unidata swag bag!
📬 Watch your inbox or visit us here for the link once it goes live.
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Need to know which METAR station is closest to your point of interest? Checkout this week's #metpymonday
We show you how to:
✅ Build a clean station list from MetPy
✅ Find the nearest station using KDTree
✅ Find distance with GeoPandas
#Python
youtu.be/nMTFb-8e1Nk?...
NSF Unidata is looking for creative people to help set the priorities and direction for our program. We need insights, ideas, and a better understanding of the science data challenges you're facing. Nominate someone (yourself?) to help us serve our community! www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/e...
25.03.2025 15:52 — 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
There's still time to apply for a NSF Unidata grants to help you purchase hardware to support your Earth Systems Science project. The application process is easy, and the deadline to submit your proposal has been extended to April 7, 2025. www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/e...
24.03.2025 18:25 — 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Tired of downloading the same data over and over? In our latest #MetPyMonday, we show you how to build a local cache for NWS soundings! Learn how to automate your data retrieval and streamline your workflow in just a few minutes. youtu.be/Pl47QBjPlu4?...
07.03.2025 00:43 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Did you know that NSF Unidata provides grants to help you purchase hardware for projects that benefit your institution and the community at large? You can still take part in the 2025 program -- applications are due by March 28, 2025. buff.ly/fx4E6Az
06.03.2025 22:03 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
New AWIPS Tips: Python-AWIPS Release v23.1
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🌍 New #MetPyMonday! 🚀
This week, we’re mapping wind roses on OpenStreetMap using CartoPy! 📊🌬️
✅ Extract & plot wind data
✅ Overlay wind roses on real-world maps
✅ Customize map layers for meteorology & GIS
Watch now! 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=neZt...
New blog post in our community project highlight series! FireWxPy: A Python Package For Fire Weather Analysis And Forecasting by @firewxguy.bsky.social www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/e...
11.02.2025 22:04 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Russ DeSouza with students
Can you think of someone who has helped you (and others!) on your path as an Earth Systems scientist? NSF Unidata's Russell L. DeSouza Award honors those who help our community share ideas, data, and software. It's easy to make a nomination! buff.ly/40zAgiq
29.01.2025 19:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Do you love to write code or teach others about data-centered Earth Systems Science? Maybe you're interested in the interplay of science and data? The NSF Unidata Summer Internship program is looking for you! Apply by January 24, 2025 to work with us next summer: www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/e...
17.12.2024 18:28 — 👍 23 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 6
Siphon v0.10.0 has been released, with a lot of fixes to work with current versions of things like xarray, numpy, and protobuf, and support for Python 3.10-3.13. It also has bug fixes for things like Hyrax catalogs and Wyoming upper air archive access. Full release notes: github.com/Unidata/siph...
13.12.2024 23:47 — 👍 20 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
Learn how to customize SkewT diagrams based on a recent question on GitHub! #Metpymonday #Meteorology #PythonForWeather #AtmosphericScience #DataVisualization youtu.be/3iPujH33WsI
10.12.2024 18:33 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Do you use scientific python in the atmospheric sciences? Interested in adding machine learning workflows to the mix, or improving what you're doing? Check out the "MetPy and Machine Learning" short course at AMS in New Orleans: www.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/am...
09.12.2024 19:20 — 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
In this episode of MetPy Mondays, we dive into Mesoscale Convective Systems (MCS) and demonstrate how to calculate storm motion using the Corfidi vector method. We'll walk you through a real-world case study! youtu.be/J-YHCcbCBD0?...
26.11.2024 22:32 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
