Unidata Users Committee Meeting

Members

Agenda

10-11 April 2008

Boulder, Colorado

Thursday, 10 April

8:00-8:30 - Continental Breakfast

8:30-8:45 - Administrative Items

• Date for Fall Meeting
• Review of Meeting Summary 4-5 October 2007 Meeting
• Review of Actions 4-5 October 2007 Meeting

8:45-9:00 - Policy Committee Report - Gary Lackmann

9:00-10:00 - Director's Report - Mohan Ramamurthy

10:00-10:15 - Break

10:15-10:45 - Site Contact Reports (see Actions 2-5)- Users Committee

10:45-11:45 - Status Reports - (Users Committee should review status reports prior to the meeting) - staff will be available for questions

• Community Services- Miller, Weber, Hansen
• Equipment Awards - Mitchell, Ramamurthy
• GEMPAK - Murray, Yoksas
• IDV Development - Murray
  • IDV now reads GEMPAK format
  • IDV Steering Committee Report - Whittaker
• LDM/IDD - Emmerson, Schmidt, Weber, Yoksas
  • Next Generation LDM Discussion
• CADIS - Weber, Ramamurthy
• Decoders - Kambic
• International Activities - Yoksas, Ramamurthy
• LEAD - Baltzer, Wilson, Ramamurthy
• McIDAS - Yoksas
• NetCDF - Rew, Hartnett, Heimbigner
• RAMADDA - McWhirter
• OPeNDAP - Ho
• Web Development - Oxelson
• Next Generation Case Studies - STORM funds - Weber, Ramamurthy
• NEXRAD-Hydrology ITR Project - Weber, Ramamurthy
• Support - Yoksas
  • Support by topic
• THREDDS - Caron
• GALEON and related outreach - Domenico

11:45 -12:45 - Lunch

12:45-1:30 - GEMPAK--AWIPS II- All

For background purposes, review presentations below:

• N-AWIPS Evolution, Jason Tuell and Steve Schotz
• Integrating NAWIPS into the New NWS Service Oriented Architecture Migrating NAWIPS to AWIPS II, Scott Jacobs, Software Technical Lead

1:30-2:30 - DeSouza Award Winner WebCast Presentation-Mark Laufersweiler, OU

• WebCast information and Seminars

2:30-3:00 - Discussion and Thanks to Presenter

3:00-3:15 - Break

3:15-4:00

• 2006 Workshop wrap up
• 2009 Summer Workshop Topics and Planning - all
  • Dates (check for potential conflicts)
  • Focus
  • Logistics

4:00-4:30 - Sean Arms

• Student Listserv
• Action 6: Sean Arms can provide a demo using FaceBook as a scientific demo, and UserComm should get an account
• Action 8: Sean Arms will create datapedia entry for WikiPedia

4:30-5:00 - USPLN Lightning Data Discussion - Tom Yoksas, Chris Herbster, et al

5:00 - Adjourn - Dinner - (Linda Miller's place)

Friday, 11 April

8:00-8:30 - Continental Breakfast

8:30-9:30 - Data Issues and additional 5-year proposal discussion

• Unidata-COSMIC
• USPLN Lightning Data

9:30-10:15 - Executive Session

10:15-10:30 - Break

10:30-11:00 - Setting up a THREDDS Server - Leigh Orf (with help from Marty Baxter)

11:00-11:30 - Demo and Discussion - Repository for Archiving, Managing and Accessing DAta (RAMADDA) - Jeff McWhirter

• Status Report

11:30-12:00 - Wrap up

12:00 - Adjourn

 

Linda Miller, Community Services, Unidata
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307-3000
303-497-8646 fax: 303-497-8690