Hi Folks, The Apache Open Climate Workbench team is pleased to announce the 1.2.0 release! This release addresses over 50 issues, bugs, and improvements. For a full breakdown of the work packaged into this release please see the release report <https://s.apache.org/120release>. In particular, OCW packaging has been improved significantly. Users can now use OCW via our Conda Package <https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/ocw>. we also provide a Pypi package <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ocw/1.2.0> for those using PIP. Download <http://climate.apache.org/downloads.html>. We urge all users to upgrade to this version immediately. Please let us know how you are using OCW over on the community mailing lists <http://climate.apache.org/community/mailing-lists.html>. Finally, please see our 1.3.0 Roadmap <https://s.apache.org/yP3D> for an idea of the next line of development.
*What is OCW?* OCW is an effort to develop software that performs climate model evaluation using model outputs from a variety of different sources the Earth System Grid Federation <http://esgf.llnl.gov/>, the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment <http://www.cordex.org>, the U.S. National Climate Assessment <http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/> and the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program <http://www.narccap.ucar.edu/> and temporal/spatial scales with remote sensing data from NASA <http://www.nasa.gov>, NOAA <http://www.noaa.gov/> and other agencies. The Python toolkit includes capabilities for rebinning, metrics computation and visualization. The OCW DOAP can be viewed at [1] Source code for this release can be obtained from our downloads page [2]. Lewis (On behalf of the OCW Project Management Committee) [0] http://climate.apache.org/ [1] https://github.com/apache/climate/blob/master/doap_CLIMATE.rdf [2] http://climate.apache.org/downloads.html -- http://home.apache.org/~lewismc/ @hectorMcSpector http://www.linkedin.com/in/lmcgibbney