THIS WEEK AT UCAR is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.ucar.edu/ucargen/UCARnewstext.html#This Week at UCAR ************************************************************************ THIS WEEK AT UCAR -- 5 June 1997 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research ------------------------------------------------- National Center for Atmospheric Research UCAR Office of Programs ************************************************************************ ANNOUNCEMENTS In brief: Creating Visualizations with the NCAR Command Language (NCL) UNICOS class FL Fitness Center remodeling Bike mechanic volunteers needed New books for the upcoming week +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | SUBMITTING ANNOUNCEMENTS TO THIS WEEK AT UCAR | | | | Send your announcement by email to thisweek@ucar.edu, by 5:00 p.m. | | Monday of the week you want it to appear. Indicate the date of the | | issue in which you want it to be published. | | | | Write your announcement just as you want it to appear. Be sure to | | include the date, time, and location of any events being announced, | | and a name, phone number, and email address for someone to contact | | for more information. | | | | Please send announcements in electronic form only. Paste the text | | of your announcement into the body of your email message, rather | | than appended as an attachment or enclosure. | |_____________________________________________________________________| ************************************************************************ CREATING VISUALIZATIONS WITH THE NCAR COMMAND LANGUAGE (NCL) Ethan Alpert, instructor 9:30AM-10:30AM June 6th in the ML Main Seminar Room. This class will cover how to create scientific visualizations using NCL including contour plots, XY plots, maps in various projections, field flows, and multiple field overlays. All plots will display scientific data. How to simplify the visualization process using plot functions and resource files will be demonstrated. NCL visualizations have nine predefined color maps. Ethan will also demonstrate how to easily define and input your own favorite color maps. This one-hour class is open to all who care to attend. It is not necessary to have attended the previous NCL classes. Questions during the presentation are welcomed. This course is being given in the context of the SCD/CGD CSM processor collaboration. For more information on this project and NCL see the CSM project web page at: http://ngwww.ucar.edu/projects/csmproc/index.html For more information contact Bob Lackman, x1224, rll@ncar.ucar.edu. ************************************************************************ UNICOS CLASS by SCD staff Wednesday, 18 June 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. -- Mesa Lab, Damon Room A basic working knowledge of UNIX is a prerequisite for this class. If you are new to computing on NCAR's Cray computers, the UNICOS Orientation class can help quick-start your computing. The free, half-day class introduces you to the NCAR computing environment and covers the following topics: --NCAR hardware and access methods --Mass Storage System commands --cf77 and the cf90 compiling system --library considerations --NOS batch system --job accounting --graphics facilities --cdbx debugging --I/O optimization --CPU optimization Please register in advance by sending email to janie@ncar.ucar.edu or calling (303) 497-1288. Classes with less than five people signed up may be cancelled. ************************************************************************ FL FITNESS CENTER REMODELING The UCAR Wellness Advisory Committee (WAC) is planning to remodel the FL Fitness Center in FY97. This center is about 5 years old and over that time users have suggested rearranging the room to modify the traffic flow during the busy noon hour. Last year, the WAC moved the water fountain into the hallway to help address this issue. This was welcomed by some and lamented by others. Now we plan to rearrange the room by putting the equipment by the entrance door and putting the aerobics floor at the back of the room. Drawings of this room reconfiguration may be seen in the FL Fitness Center and, in the near future, on the WAC web site at http://www.ucar.edu//ucargen/groups/wellness/wellness.html Let WAC know what you think of the plan by sending email to WAC@ucar.edu or contacting any WAC member. ( A list of members is also on the web site.) Jim Menghi, Chair, WAC Jim_Menghi@qgate.ucar.edu 497-8558 ************************************************************************ BIKE MECHANIC VOLUNTEERS NEEDED As part of Bike and Pedestrian week each year, the TAP likes to sponsor a bike tune-up clinic. Getting your bike in working order is an essential first step to using it instead of your car. We are looking for help, and need volunteers to tune up bikes. We will provide supplies and lunch (and perhaps more, such as a t-shirt), but need bike stands and help. The duration would be for a couple of hours for one day of Bike and Pedestrian week. We would like to have clinics at the Mesa and Foothills. Please help! If you can, contact Leonard Sitongia, x1509; sitongia@ucar.edu. ************************************************************************ NEW BOOKS FOR THE UPCOMING WEEK This is a sampling of the new books available at the NCAR library. These books and others will be on display at the Foothills library for the upcoming week. For a complete list of new titles at both the Foothills and Mesa locations please check the Information Desk on the library's on-line catalog (NOLA). Powerful communication skills for women / K. Keller HF5718 .K45 1994 / location: ML Microsoft Windows NT resource kit : for Windoes NT workstation and Windows NT server version 3.5 / Microsoft Corp. QA76.76 .O63 M52455 1995 v. 4 / location: ML Turbulence coherent structures, dynamical systems, and symmetry / P. Holmes QA913 .H65 1996 / location: FL Total solar eclipse of 1999 August 11 / F. Espenak QB544.99 .E86 1997 / location: FL Schema di classificazione per II nuovo cimento / Societ'a italiana di fisica QC1 .N9112 1994 / location: ML An introduction to electromagnetic wave propagation and antennas / S. Cloude QC661 .C567 1995b / location: FL Learning to predict climate variations associated with El Nino and the southern oscillation / National Research Council QC981.8 .C5 L42 1996 / location: ML Air quality control / G. Baumbach TD883 .B36313 1996 / location: ML ************************************************************************ Information on contacting THIS WEEK AT UCAR or UCARLINE is available by accessing: http://www.ucar.edu/thisweek/subscribe.html To find out how to change your subscription options for either of these newsletters, access: http://www.ucar.edu/thisweek/subscribe.html#Using majordomo