Users Committee - 17-18 October 1995

Action Items:

• Fulker will check to see if there's a GIS package using netCDF
• Fulker will pursue the question of NIDS product availability for special field projects with WSI
• The question of expanded support to field projects and supplying additional data should be included in the next Users Committee community survey
• Unidata should create WWW information and include an article in EOS bulletin about Unidata presence at the AGU meeting in December
• The UPC should provide feedback on applications packages and decoder status. UPC needs to maintain information on the WWW on the development of decoders, netCDF, and information about McIDAS and plans for GEMPAK
• Write newsletter article asking users to share their solutions to NWS datastream changes and any other software solutions they have developed to deal with data issues
• Can NWS provide area forecast zones information? There is a need for elevation, lats/lons and types of observations in the NWS Gopher/WWW (Linda will continue work on this issue)
• A satellite sub-committee composed of Melanie Wetzel (Chair), Tom Yoksas, Paul Ruscher, Jennie Moody, Charlie Murphy, and Denise Laitsch, SSEC, was established with the following mission:
  ACTION:
  • define strawman proposal for changes
  • re-examine distribution of satellite imagery,
  • resolution of temporal,
  • channels ( 2 ) omitted
  • sounders
  • provide examples via web (CIMMS, SSEC, or NASA)
  • comments and conclusions should be presented to the User Committee, after which they will be communicated to "community"
• Matt Hicks will create a "relative order of importance" form for community input on products. Matt will work with Melanie to create a usable format
• Sally will write (with Melanie and Paul) a newsletter article on the new products and describe RAMSDIS
• There is a need to advertise WWW pages which provide instructional information. These web locations should be announced to the community
• Sally will revise Minigrants proposal with Jim Moore and pass it by the committee via e-mail before sending to Cliff
• Linda Miller and Don Murray will check with NCDC to see if they have updated station information available
• The UPC will develop a model caveat statement for universities to use Web pages that have weather data
• Jennie Moody will send an email to the Users Committee with a proposal on a summer 97 workshop

RESOLUTION:

The Users Committee advises the UPC to investigate the feasibility of supporting key, industry-leading, easy-to-administer platforms as basis for utilizing Unidata capabilities.

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Prepared by Linda Miller

Questions or comments can be sent to Linda Miller