AWIPS Tips: NSF Unidata AWIPS 23.4.1-1 Release
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! AWIPS 23.4.1-1 is a full AWIPS release (not in beta anymore!), with both EDEX and CAVE installation options.This release (building upon previous 23.4.1 versions) includes a...
View ArticleAWIPS Tips: Python-AWIPS Release v23.1
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! Hello All,I am happy to announce a new version of python-awips (v23.1) is available! This version is available via source code (with all example notebooks) or via mamba...
View ArticleAWIPS Tips: AWIPS Updates at Unidata
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday break. I have a couple updates that I would like to share with you all regarding:Decommissioning Unidata Version 20 (CentOS7)...
View ArticleAWIPS Tips: Decommissioning V20 Public EDEX Server
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! I wanted to post another reminder that at the end of the year, we will be decommissioning the version 20.3.2 public EDEX Server (edex-cloud.unidata.ucar.edu) as it is...
View ArticleAWIPS Tips: AWIPS Full Beta Release v23.4.1-0.4
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! AWIPS 23.4.1-0.4 is a beta release, with both EDEX and CAVE installation options. This release (building upon previous versions 23.*) includes a major upgrade for the...
View ArticleAWIPS Tips: AWIPS Full Beta Release v23.4.1-0.3
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! AWIPS 23.4.1-0.3 is a beta release, with both EDEX and CAVE installation options. This release includes a major upgrade for the operating system, running on Rocky 8 Linux –...
View ArticleAWIPS Tips: AWIPS Team Reduction
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! Today’s announcement comes with a bit of unfortunate news. Due to budgetary reasons, NSF Unidata has had to reduce our staff, and because of that, the AWIPS team was...
View ArticleAWIPS Tips: NSF Unidata AWIPS 23.4.1-0.2 Beta CAVE Software Release
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! AWIPS 23.4.1-0.2 is a beta release of CAVE for installation on linux, mac, windows, and virtual machines (Windows and Linux). This release includes a major upgrade for the...
View ArticleAWIPS Tips: Using Hotkeys in CAVE
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! Today we’re going to take a look at some of the most useful shortcuts in CAVE – keyboard hotkeys! Our documentation has an entire page dedicated to defining keyboard...
View ArticleAWIPS Tips: Plotting NEXRAD Data in Python
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips!Today we’re going to take a look at another python-awips example notebook. This notebook demonstrates how to work with radar data by investigating available radar sites and...
View ArticleAWIPS Tips: Inserting Data into EDEX with Python
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips!Today we’re going to discuss an alternative method to ingest data into EDEX outside of edexBridge. The most standard way of inserting data into the EDEX processing queue is...
View ArticleAWIPS Tips: Saving User Configurations Locally
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! Today we’re going to walk through the process of saving user configurations and overrides locally. This process can be helpful to have a backup version of these files, if...
View ArticleAWIPS Tips: Using the Text Workstation
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! This week we are going to look at how to display a variety of text products generated by Warning Forecast Offices and are available in our AWIPS database. This functionality...
View ArticleAWIPS Tips: Upcoming CentOS7 End of Life
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! The AWIPS software was originally developed to run on the RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system. RHEL is not free to use, and because of that NSF Unidata has...
View ArticleAWIPS Tips: Customized Contours
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! This week we are going to look at how to customize contours for products in CAVE by changing the styleRules. Customizations include adjusting the color, line type,...
View ArticleAWIPS Tips: Exploring Satellite Imagery using Python-AWIPS
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! This week we’re going to dive into a little bit of python-awips to learn more about what satellite data our EDEX has to offer. If this is your first time joining us, it may...
View ArticleAWIPS Tips: AWIPS 20.3.2-2 Software Release
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! We are excited to announce our release of 20.3.2-2 that incorporates many updates and fixes from the 20.3.2-1 release. This release includes installers for CAVE (CentOS7,...
View ArticleAWIPS Tips: New RAWS Data
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! Today we’re going to touch on a relatively new dataset that was added from a request in our community. The dataset is from Remote Automatic Weather Stations (RAWS) and was...
View ArticleAWIPS Tips: AMS 2024 Highlight
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! This week we’d like to highlight our upcoming presence at the 2024 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting.Student WorkshopThe AWIPS team at NSF Unidata is...
View ArticleAWIPS Tips: Changes Related to v20.3.2 AWIPS Release
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! We hope everyone is enjoying 2024 so far! At the end of last year, we announced a Please update to our latest version of CAVE and then everything will work again.If you had...
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