DRAFT Agenda
Unidata Policy Committee
Monday and Tuesday, 28 - 29 April 2008
NSF Headquarters, Arlington, Virginia
Room 370, Stafford I (main building)

Monday, April 28

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:30 Administrative Matters (Businger)

• Approve Agenda
• Set next Meeting Dates
  • Fall 2008
• Approve Summary Notes from October 2007 meeting
• Review of action items and resolutions from the fall meeting:
  • Resolution 1: The Policy Committee recommends that the Program Center continue to facilitate climate data services development
  • Resolution 2: The Policy Committee encourages the Program to explore the feasibility of delivering real-time air quality data to the community.
  • Action Items:
  • 1. The Policy Committee recommends that the Unidata Users Committee explore the possibility of adding an NCAR representative to its membership which could be ex-officio. (Complete.)
  • 2. The committee recommends that Unidata proceed in coordinating with COSMIC and its sponsors the distribution of COSMIC data using Unidata technology. This would include a possible modification of the registration agreement currently in place. (Complete.)
  • 3. The NASA and NOAA agency representatives will provide updates on new observing instruments associated with their respective agencies, e.g., EOS, NPOESS, and GOES. (Agenda item; without a NASA representative, EOS will not be discussed.)
  • 4. The Committee requests that Unidata send a representative to EPA's data summit to be held in spring 2008. (Complete. Domenico attended.)
  • 5. The Policy Committee requests that the Users Committee determine which of the available EPA data should be distributed using Unidata technology. (Users committee has initiated steps to identify the data.)
    

9:15 Director's Report (Ramamurthy)

10:15 Break

10:30 Budget Report (Mitchell, Ramamurthy)

11:00 Users Committee Report (Lackmann presented by Miller)

11:15 Agency Report

• National Weather Service (Spayd)

12:15 Box lunch

1:15 Software Transitions at Unidata (Ramamurthy, Uccellini, Rew) (Tab 28)

• 1:15 Setting the stage (Ramamurthy)
• 1:30 GEMPAK, CONDUIT, and Model Development (Uccellini)
• 2:15 Climate Services Update (Uccellini)

3:15 Break

• 3:30: LDM Development (Rew)

4:00 UNAVCO GPS Meteorology Session (Bevis presented by Businger)

5:00 Adjourn for dinner

6:30 Working Dinner at Domaso Trattoria Moderna, 1121 North 19th Street, Arlington, VA 22209, Tel: 703.351.1211

Tuesday, April 29th

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:15 NSF Status Report (Jacobs)

9:00 CF Conventions Support by Unidata (Rew)

9:30 Use of netCDF-4 in GOES-R (Richard Ullman, NASA)

10:00 Break

10:15 Calibrating long range lightning detection networks (Businger)

10:45 Funding Proposal (Tab 29)

• Anticipating Reviewers' Questions and Comments
• Preparing for the Review Panel

11:30 Wrap up

12:00 Adjourn

Address questions or comments to Jo Hansen at jhansen@unidata.ucar.edu