Connor Cozad joined the Unidata Program Center as a software development summer intern on May 17, 2021. He is a rising junior studying data science and meteorology at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina.
[Read More]Welcome Summer Intern Connor Cozad
21 May 2021
Connor Cozad joined the Unidata Program Center as a software development summer intern on May 17, 2021. He is a rising junior studying data science and meteorology at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina.
[Read More]Welcome Summer Intern Lydia Bunting
21 May 2021
Lydia Bunting joined the Unidata Program Center as a software development summer intern on May 17, 2021. She completed a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Oklahoma State University in the spring of 2020, and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Atmospheric Science at Texas Tech University.
[Read More]Toward Standardized Digital Representations of Units of Measurement
20 May 2021
The Committee on Data (CODATA) of the Paris-based International Science Council promotes open data policies, working to advance the interoperability and usability of research data. The Committee is committed to supporting FAIR data principles to improve the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse of digital assets.
Within the CODATA organizational umbrella, Unidata software developer Steven Emmerson has joined the Digital Representation of Units of Measure (DRUM) Task Group, which aims to raise the profile of the digital representation of units of measure in research communities, representative and governing bodies, and with funders. DRUM takes the position that support for consistent digital representations of units of measurement is of far-reaching importance for science, technology, industry, and trade.
[Read More]19 May 2021
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips, where it's time to talk about time! Specifically, how CAVE handles displaying multiple datasets with different time intervals. CAVE uses the Time Match Basis feature to settle temporal disparities. Watch the video in this post to see it in action.
[Read More]New: Downloadable Resources from COMET MetEd University Course Support
18 May 2021
In the fall of 2020, UCAR's COMET program inaugurated a new resource for instructors teaching university undergraduate meteorology courses. The University Course Support collection is intended to support university faculty and students in their increasingly virtual learning by mapping MetEd lesson content to U.S. university meteorology course curricula.
This week, COMET has announced that the University Course Support resource has added the capability to download images and animations associated with the MetEd lessons. Instructors can now easily integrate these resources into their own lectures and presentations. All graphics and media items are free for reuse for noncommercial, educational purposes.
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