Unidata AWIPS

AWIPS (formerly know as AWIPS II or AWIPS2) is a weather forecasting display and analysis package developed by the National Weather Service and Raytheon. AWIPS is a Java application consisting of a data-rendering client (CAVE, which runs on Red Hat/CentOS Linux, macOS, and Windows), and a backend data server (EDEX, which runs on x86_64 Red Hat/CentOS 6 and 7).

AWIPS takes a unified approach to data ingest, and most data types follow a standard path through the system, starting with an LDM client requesting data from Unidata's IDD, which are then decoded and stored as HDF5 and PostgreSQL/PostGIS metadata. Unidata supports two visualization frameworks for rendering AWIPS data:

• CAVE - the Common AWIPS Visualization Environment
• python-awips - a Python data access framework for requesting Numpy data arrays and Shapely geometries.

License

Unidata AWIPS source code and binaries (RPMs) are considered to be in the public domain, meaning there are no restrictions on any download, modification, or distribution in any form (original or modified). Unidata AWIPS contains no proprietery content and is therefore not subject to export controls as stated in the Master Rights licensing file.

AWIPS Data in the Cloud

Through a grant provided by Jetstream, Unidata is able to run a real-time EDEX data server in cloud, providing free AWIPS data to UCAR member institutions and other geoscience research and education organizations. When prompted in the Connectivity Preferences dialog, enter edex-cloud.unidata.ucar.edu (without adding http:// before, or :9581/services after), or select it from the default dropdown list.

Documentation

• Unidata AWIPS User Manual

• How to Install CAVE

• How to Install EDEX

• Starting and Stopping EDEX

• The D2D Perspective

• The NCP Perspective

• The Localization Perspective

• python-awips Data Access Framework

• awips2-users Mailing List Archives

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AWIPS Source Code Respositories

• awips2-builds (this repo)
• awips2-core
• awips2-core-foss
• awips2-foss
• awips2-ncep
• awips2-goesr
• awips2-rpm

Setting up the AWIPS Development Environment (ADE)

Instructions on how to deploy CAVE from Eclipse.

1. Change /etc/yum.repos.d/awips2.repo to

    [awips2repo]
    name=AWIPS II Repository
    baseurl=http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/repos/yum/awips2-dev/
    enabled=1
    protect=0
    gpgcheck=0
    proxy=_none_
   

2. yum clean all && yum groupinstall awips2-ade

   This will install Eclipse (4.5), Java (1.8), Ant, Maven, Python 2.7 and its modules (Numpy, Shapely, etc.)

3. git clone https://github.com/Unidata/awips2.git

   The full list of repositories required as of release 17.1.1:

    git clone https://github.com/Unidata/awips2.git
    git clone https://github.com/Unidata/awips2-core.git
    git clone https://github.com/Unidata/awips2-core-foss.git
    git clone https://github.com/Unidata/awips2-foss.git
    git clone https://github.com/Unidata/awips2-ncep.git
    git clone https://github.com/Unidata/awips2-goesr.git
    git clone https://github.com/Unidata/awips2-rpm.git
   

   Optional repositories:

    git clone https://github.com/Unidata/awips2-nws.git
    git clone https://github.com/Unidata/awips2-gsd.git
    git clone https://github.com/Unidata/awips2-drawing.git
    git clone https://github.com/Unidata/awips2-cimss.git
   

4. Run /awips2/eclipse/eclipse.sh

   • Preferences > Java

     Set to /awips2/java

   • Preferences > PyDev > Python Interpreter

     Set to /awips2/python/bin/python (should be resolved by Auto-Config)

   • File > Import > General > Existing Projects Into Workspace

     Import all of the git cloned project folders EXCEPT for the main (first) github.com/Unidata/awips2.git directory (which should be ~/awips2).

     You'll want to import ~/awips2 in three parts to ensure a clean and error-free Eclipse build:

     1. Import awips2/cave > Select All Projects > Finish
     2. Import awips2/edexOsgi > Select All Projects > Finish
     3. Import awips2/Radar > Select All Projects > Finish

        The Radar folder contains the EDEX Radar Server plugins. Though the Unidata release does not build or use the radar server, the common libraries are required for other AWIPS radar processing and visualization plugins.

     Now import all other repositories fully:

     Select awips2-core, awips2-core-foss, awips2-foss, awips2-ncep, etc. > Select All Projects > Finish

   • Project > Clean

     Run a clean build and ensure no errors are reported.

5. Run com.raytheon.viz.product.awips/developer.product

   Double-click the developer.product file to open the Product View in Eclipse. Select Overview > Synchronize and then right-click the file in the left-side package explorer:

   Select Run As > Eclipse Application to launch CAVE in the development environment.

   Select Debug > Eclipse Application to launch CAVE in in debug mode.