Unidata Users Committee Meeting

Agenda
18-19 October 2010

Unidata Conference Room, FL4
Boulder, Colorado

Committee Members

Monday, 18 October 2010

8:00-8:30 - Continental Breakfast

8:30-9:00 - Administrative Items

• Introduction of: Francina Dominguez, new committee member
• Introduction of new UPC staff members Julien Chastang, IDV & RAMADDA; Doug Dirks Community Services, Scientific/Technical Writer/Editor
• Thanks to Bill Gallus, Iowa State Univ for his service to the Users Committee
• Date for Spring meeting
• Review of March 2010 Meeting Summary
• Review of March 2010 Action Items

9:00-9:15 - Policy Committee Report - Tom Whittaker, Mohan Ramamurthy

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

10:15-10:30 - Break

10:30-11:30 - Status Reports - (Users Committee should review status reports prior to the meeting) - staff will be available for questions

• AWIPS2 - James
• CADIS - Weber, Ramamurthy
• Case Studies - Weber
• Community Services - Miller, Weber, Dirks
• Administration - Mitchell
  • Equipment Awards - Mitchell, Ramamurthy
  • Training Workshop - Campbell
• Unidata Outreach - Domenico
• GEMPAK - James
• IDV - Ho, Chastang
• International Activities - Yoksas
• LDM - Emmerson
• IDD - Schmidt, Weber, Yoksas
• McIDAS - Yoksas
• NetCDF - Rew, Hartnett, Heimbigner
• Next Generation LDM - Emmerson
  
• NEXRAD-Hydrology ITR Project - Weber, Ramamurthy
• RAMADDA - Chastang
• Support - Yoksas, Oxelson
• THREDDS - Caron, Davis

• Comprehensive Metrics Information

11:30 - Lunch

12:45 - Update and Demo GEMPAK/NAWIPS migration to AWIPS-2

• NCEP Update and Status of the migration to AWIPS-2-Michelle Mainelli,
• Demonstration of capabilities-Michael James

1:45 - AWIPS2 discussion - All

2:30 - CONDUIT update - Becky Cosgrove, NCEP

• Discussion
• What's next?
  

3:00-3:30 - Break

3:30-4:00 - Blue Sky Session - Tom Whittaker

4:00-5:00 - Discussion of day's items and miscellaneous issues

• Action item 3 carried over from October 2009 meeting
  • Obtain a collection of GEMPAK scripts to compare with IDV capabilities. (Don and/or Michael will coordinate)

6:00 - Working Dinner at Agave Restaurant, 2845 28th St., Boulder, CO

Tuesday, 19 October 2010

8:00 - 8:30 - Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 9:30 - 2010 Unidata Users Survey - Anne Case-Hanks, et al

• Preparation and Distribution
• Results and Analysis
• Next Steps

9:30 - 10:00 - Lightning data discussion - Mohan Ramamurthy, et al

10:00 - 10:30 - Break

10:30 - Wrap up - committee topics for discussion

• DeSouza nomination and decision process - Tom Whittaker & all
  • Circulate solicitation for nominations
  • Committee votes via email
  • Award winner attends and presents a webcast to the community on his/her use of Unidata data, software, and services at the spring 2011Users Committee
  • changes in procedures?
• Other discussion

11:30 - Adjourn

Acronyms list and glossary of terms

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