NEXRAD ITR Collaborative Research Project (with University of Iowa, Princeton University, and National Climatic Data Center)
Progress Report: October 2007 -> April 2008
Mohan Ramamurthy and Jeff Weber, Unidata

UPDATE

• Witek (U Of Iowa) has been showing the HYDRO-NEXRAD interface to a number of people in the hydrologic community and the response has been very good. He does this sitting in his office with the other party at their office and the whole presentation is over the Internet. We have had a number of requests for user accounts.
• The University of Iowa have been interacting with Steve Delgreco and Brian Nelson at NCDC and are scheduled for another meeting. We are talking about what to do in the long term, especially after the NSF funding ends.
• There are strong interests from CUAHSI. Several groups have pilot observatories and they need good rainfall estimates of their infrastructure. HYDRO-NEXRAD is an obvious choice for them. There is one such group on campus at U of Iowa, and we are meeting with Michael Piasecki (Drexel) in the next few weeks. IDD/LDM plays an important part in getting the data to these groups.
• We have been working closely with David Maidment (UT-Austin and head of CUAHSI-HIS) and his students working towards creating a meta-data database for use with the CUAHSI long term observatories.
• Working with David Maidment to somehow bring in USGS stream gauge data into the LDM/IDD