Unidata Users Committee Meeting

18-19 April 2013
Unidata Program Center
FL4-Room 1201
Boulder, Colorado

Members
Users Committee Summary-17 September 2012
Users Committee Actions-17 September 2012
Joint Unidata Policy and Users Committees Meeting Summary 18 September 2012

Acronyms list and glossary of terms

Agenda

Thursday 18 April 2013

8:00-8:30 - Continental Breakfast

8:30-9:00 - Administrative Items

• Introduction: Larry Oolman, Russell L. DeSouza Award winner
• Date for Fall meeting
• Review of Action Items

9:00-9:15 - Policy Committee Report - Mohan Ramamurthy and Kevin Tyle

• Action Items

9:15-10:15 - Director's Report - Mohan Ramamurthy

10:15 - Break

10:45 - 12:00 - AWIPS II briefing and demo - Michael James, Michelle Mainelli

• CONDUIT status - Michelle will report for Becky Cosgrove

12:00 - 1:15 - Lunch and DeSouza Award

• 12:00-12:30 - Working Lunch
• 12:30-1:15 - Presentation of DeSouza Award Winner to Larry Oolman, University of Wyoming, on his use of Unidata tools, data, software, and collaborations

1:15 -2:15 - Status Reports - (Users Committee should review status reports prior to the meeting) - staff will be available for questions

• ACADIS - Arms, Ramamurthy, Weber
• Admin
  • Equipment Awards - Mitchell, Ramamurthy
  • Meeting and Travel Coordination - Emery
  • Training Workshop - Mitchell
• AWIPS II - James
• Community Services - Miller, Dirks, Weber
  • Acknowledging Unidata - Dirks
  • AWIPS II training for Unidata trainers/developers
• NAWIPS/GEMPAK - James
• IDV with RAMADDA - Ho, Chastang, Arms
• International Activities - Yoksas
• IDD - Schmidt, Weber, Yoksas
• LDM - Emmerson
• McIDAS - Yoksas
• NetCDF - Rew, Heimbigner, Fisher
• ρζητα ("rosetta") - Arms, Oxelson
• Support - Yoksas, Oxelson
• THREDDS - Caron, Davis, Hermida
• Unidata Outreach Progress - Domenico
• Comprehensive Metrics Data

2:15 - 3:00 - Investigation of alternatives to RAMADDA (see Actions from September 2012 Joint Meeting)

3:00 - 3:30 Break

3:30 - 4:15 - Unidata's 2018 Proposal to NSF - Ramamurthy

4:15 - 5:00 - Summaries and discussion of

• 2013 IT Survey Results
• 2013 University Science Survey Results

5:45 - Working Dinner

Friday 19 April 2013

8:00 - 8:30 - Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 9:15 - HRRR (replaces RUC) and FIM Global Model - Miller, Ramamurthy, Weber

9:15-10:00 - Experiences designing & implementing six IDV/RAMADDA case studies for synoptic meteorology class - Marty Baxter

10:00 - 10:15 - Break

10:15 - 11:00 - Blue Sky Session

11:00 - 12:00 - Miscellaneous Items

• New Data Considerations: Possible addition of barometric data from seismic sites (provided by IRIS). For examples see the following:
  • http://www.iris.edu/gmap/?chan=LDO returns the one sample per second pressure readings
  • http://www.iris.edu/dms/products/infrasound/event/ shows the "TAIRED, TA Infrasound Reference Event Database".<
• LAPS Discussion
  From Zoltan Toth, Chief, Forecast Applications Branch, NOAA/OAR/ESRL/GSD:
  LAPS is widely used in the forecast community partly due to its ease of portability and use. The workshop recommended the development of a Graphical User Interface (GUI) or wizard for the easy installation, configuration, updating, and testing of LAPS on the new AWIPS-ll workstation of the NWS that is also portable to other platforms. The wizard could also facilitate the ingestion and quality control of observational data. Workshop participants expressed a strong interest in using LAPS installed on AWIPS-ll, and recommended that if possible, UNIDATA distribute the LAPS software to the community.
• Space Weather Data
  Brent Gordon from the NOAA/NCEP/Space Weather Prediction Center has offered to provide data to the Unidata community.
  (Brent Gordon's slides from the 2012 Users Workshop.)

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