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SAVE THE DATE! The 2016 McIDAS Users' Group Meeting will be held November 16-17, 2016 in Madison, Wisconsin, with the possibility of McIDAS training sessions being held before the meeting on November 14-15. Registration will be available this summer on our website ( News & Events menu). Thank yo...

The m catalog for gridded data was recently updated to the 4.6 version of the THREDDS Data Server. There are some compatibility issues with older bundles that point towards this catalog. For example, when loading a bundle with data created from m, you may see a Null Pointer Exception error as well a...

The ‘Imagery – Suomi NPP’ chooser is listed under the Under Development tree in the Data Sources tab in the Data Explorer. This chooser is designed to work with Suomi NPP (National Polar-orbiting Partnership) data from NOAA's CLASS and SSEC’s PEATE server. With the release of McIDAS-V 1.5, there hav...

The ‘Imagery - Satellite Orbit Track’ chooser is listed under the Under Development tree in the Data Sources tab in the Data Explorer. This chooser is designed to plot the tracks of satellites utilizing TLE (Two Line Element) messages from the satellites. McIDAS-V enables these files to be imported ...

The newest version of McIDAS-V, version 1.5, is now available for free download from the McIDAS-V Website . For current McIDAS-V users, notable changes since the previous version (1.4) include: - Added the ability to work with remote Himawari data - Updated to Java 1.7 - Continued development of Jyt...

Per the email from Unidata to the idvusers mailing list on 04/05/2015, the machine that provides services for THREDDS and adde.ucar.edu is out of service. There is no current ETA for the return of these services. However, there are alternative servers and a catalog that are currently operational tha...

Online registration is now available for the 2015 McIDAS Users' Group (MUG) Meeting to be held 8-11 June 2015 in Madison, Wisconsin. The registration form and meeting information can be found on the the MUG Meeting webpage: m The registration deadline is 15 April 2015. The planned schedule is for me...

Several users have reported problems using local servers in McIDAS-V. In version 1.4, if there is any problem connecting to local servers, a generic error message appears saying: Could not connect to dataset “xxxx” on server “localhost:8112”. Dataset may require ADDE accounting information In a futu...

There will be several low-level changes made to McIDAS-V in the coming weeks to support newer Java versions. These changes will be made in McIDAS-V 1.5beta2, which will be available on the nightly installers page along with the beta1 builds. Note that we expect the beta2 builds to be relatively unst...

Please note that this forum post has been closed to further replies. For further developments concerning the Suomi NPP chooser, please see the new forum post entitled Suomi NPP Chooser – 1.4.

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