Policy Committee Action Items and Recommendations

October 21-22, 2010

Boulder, Colorado

The next Policy Committee Meeting will be 23-24 May 2011.


All Carried Over Action Items from the April 15-16, 2010 meeting were completed.

Action Items - October 21-22 2010:

Action 1:  Brian Colle will provide a paragraph about the archived model needs for the NOMADS server at NCDC.  Ben Domenico will convey Policy Committee wishes/concerns regarding archived model forecast data.

Action 2:  Work closer with the DTC and GSD to get data sets useful to university community

Action 3:  Get clarification on the evolution and character of the 4-D weather cube.

Summary of executive session (provided by Steven Businger, Chair):

Concern was expressed regarding the perceived increase in workload associated with AWIPS II transition and staffing changes; e.g., that some applications (IDV, RAMADDA) may not receive sufficient attention. 

Recommendations:

i) look for resources to add one additional staff programmer. 
ii) resurrect steering committees for key packages.

Policy Committee members

 

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