Unidata Policy Committee Meeting

14-15 May 2013
NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction
College Park, Maryland

Members
Staff Status Reports
Users Committee Summary - 17 September 2012
Policy Committee Actions - 19 September 2012
Joint Unidata Policy and Users Committees Meeting Summary - 18 September 2012
Users Committee Summary - 18-19 April, 2013

Acronyms list and glossary of terms

Agenda

Tuesday, 14 May 2013

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:30 Administrative Matters - Steve Businger

• Approve September 19th Meeting Summary and Action Items
• Set Fall 2013 meeting dates

8:45 Users Committee Report - Kevin Tyle

9:00 Director's Report - Mohan Ramamurthy

10:00 Budget Report - Terry Mitchell

10:15 Break

10:30 Agency Reports

• NSF report - Bernard Grant
• NASA report - Peter Griffith (remote presentation)
• NOAA report - Leroy Spayd (slides)

11:30 Lunch

12:30 Introduction of NCEP hosts and visitors

• Ben Kyger, NCEP Director, Central Operations
• Matt Rosencrans, Forecaster, CPC
• Dave Plummer, AWIPS Software Lead
• Scott Jacobs, Technical Lead, NCO
• Michelle Mainelli (NCEP liaison to Policy Committee-AWIPS)
• Becky Cosgrove (NCEP liaison to Policy Committee-CONDUIT)

12:35 NCEP welcome - Ben Kyger

• Current status
• Future plans and opportunities

1:00 AWIPS II - status and discussion

• Michelle Mainelli, NOAA/NCEP/Systems Integration Branch Chief - Presentation
• Michael James, Unidata - Status

2:00 Earth Cube Update - Eva Zanzerkia, NSF

3:00 Break

3:30 Unidata 2018 proposal status - Mohan Ramamurthy

4:15 Summary of IT survey and Science survey - Mohan Ramamurthy, et al

5:00 Adjourn

6:30 Working Dinner - Busboys and Poets Restaurant, Hyattsville, MD

Wednesday, 15 May 2013

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:30 Tour of NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction and NCEP - Michelle Mainelli and Matt Rosencrans, forecaster-CPC

• Climate Prediction Center tour and overview of operations
• Michelle to give a demo of AWIPS II at the test bed as part of tour

10:15 Break

10:30 NOAA Environmental Data Management Activities - Dr. Jeff de La Beaujardiere

11:15 Wrap up

11:30 Adjourn

 

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Community Services, Unidata
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