I.M. Systems Group, Inc. (IMSG), www.imsg.com a Federal Government Contractor is seeking to fill a position supporting the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (HPC) of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) located in Camp Springs, MD.  The contractor will serve as a research scientist at the HPC as part of NOAA's Hydrometeorology Testbed (NOAA HMT-HPC).  In this capacity the incumbent will work with scientists within NOAA and partners outside of NOAA to identify and evaluate promising techniques for improved weather forecasts, work with HPC meteorologists to enhance the transition of research to operations, and assist in the training of HPC staff in new techniques and tools.  The incumbent will also work with other HMT-HPC staff to publish results from studies in peer-reviewed journals.

The NetCDF-Java/CDM library version 4.2.26 was released on July 25, 2011. The latest update can be downloaded from the NetCDF Java Library page at https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/documentation.htm This release has a number of important bug fixes and improvements. We recommend that you upgrade to it asap.

For a list of changes in the current version, see the Change Log.

Participants in the 2011 Unidata GEMPAK Training Workshop were the first class given the opportunity to test-drive CAVE (theCommon AWIPS Visualization Environment). The UPC was testing a single-server standalone EDEX installation providing data for twenty CAVE workstations simultaneously.  Although AWIPS2/CAVE is a 32 bit Java application, the UPC continues testing stability and usability on 64 bit systems.   This single-server/multiple-client AWIPS2 configuration shows promise for University computer lab settings.

The Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) version 3.0b1 is a new major version of the IDV. This is a beta version release.

According to NCEP Central Operations (NCO) Chief of Systems Integration Michelle Mainelli, in the month of June, NCEP Central Operations, NWS/Office of Science and Technology, and Raytheon Technical Services successfully established a data flow connection between NCEP's Central Computing System and NCEP's Primary Data Flow Server in our AWIPS II Testbed (NTBN) located in the Camp Springs, MD World Weather Building.

"The purpose of this direct connection is to ensure the timely arrival of model, satellite, and observational data to our AWIPS II system," says Mainelli. "The GFS, NAM, and RUC operational model data (in GRIB2 format) are now automatically being sent to NTBN. In order to optimize processing and registration to the database, it was necessary re-write the National Center Perspective (NCP) GRIB decoder."

Testing and refining the GRIB decoder to ensure efficient data processing will continue into early July, says Mainelli.