Unidata Users Committee Meeting

3-4 October 2013
Unidata Program Center
FL4-Room 1201
Boulder, Colorado

Agenda

Members
Users Committee Summary-18-19 April 2013
Action Items-18-19 April 2013
Acronyms list and glossary of terms

Thursday, 3 October 2013

8:00-8:30 - Continental Breakfast

8:30-9:00 - Administrative Items

• Welcome to new members and thank you to outgoing members
• Introduction: Larry Oolman, Russell L. DeSouza Award winner
• Date for Spring meeting
• Review of Action Items

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

9:15-10:30 - Director's Report to include Unidata's 2018 Proposal to NSF - Mohan Ramamurthy

10:30 - Break

10:45 - AWIPS II briefing and demo - Michael James, Unidata, and Michelle Mainelli, NOAA/NCEP/Systems Integration Branch Chief

12:00 - 1:30 - Working Lunch and DeSouza Award

• 12:05 - Group Photograph
• 12:15-12:45 - Working Lunch
• 12:45-1:30 - Presentation of DeSouza Award to Larry Oolman, University of Wyoming. Larry will discuss use of Unidata tools, data, software, and collaborations

1:30 -2:30 - 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
• IDV with RAMADDA - Ho, Chastang, Arms
• International Activities - Yoksas
• IDD - Schmidt, Weber, Yoksas
• LDM - Emmerson
• McIDAS - Yoksas
• NetCDF - Rew, Fisher, Heimbigner
• NAWIPS/GEMPAK - James
• Rosetta - Arms, Oxelson, Weber
• Support - Yoksas, Oxelson
• THREDDS - Caron, Davis, Hermida
• Unidata Outreach Progress - Domenico
• Comprehensive Metrics Data

2:30 - 3:00 Steering Committee reports (THREDDS, IDV, RAMADDA)

3:00 - 3:15 Break

3:15-4:00 Around-the-table reports from UserComm members

4:00 - 4:30 Users Workshop follow up - Kevin Tyle, Steven Lazarus, Doug Dirks, Tom Whittaker

4:30 - 5:00 Wrap up session

5:00 - Adjourn

7:00 - Collaborative discussion on the day's proceedings over dinner

Friday 4 October 2013

8:00 - 8:30 Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 9:00 Discussion of Open Weather and Climate Services (project led by Peter Neilley of The Weather Company and Ben Kyger, NCEP)

9:00 - 10:00 BlueSky Session

10:00 - 10:15 Break

10:15 - 11:00 Site Contacts

11:00 - 12:00 Executive Session (Users Committee members only)

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