ACTION 2: It was agreed that there are many changes taking place regarding types of data, data management, data access, and data volume. Unidata should invite agency representatives to provide briefings at future meetings.
ACTION 3: Rajul Pandya will provide a demonstration of the Virtual Geophysical Exploration Environment (VGEE) at the next Users Committee meeting.
ACTION 4: Charlie Murphy, Don Murray, Tom Whittaker, Rich Clark, John Caron, and Jeff McWhirter will create a white paper discussing potential outreach and developmental needs to elucidate the needs of developers and users, considering the "expert group" approach.
RESOLUTION 1: The Users Committee endorsed the Policy Committee's Resolution (noted in the Policy Committee Liaison Report above).
Resolution:
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On
behalf
of
the
Unidata
community
the
Policy
Committee
expresses
its
appreciation
to
Ben
Domenico
for
his
leadership
as
acting
Director
of
the
Unidata
Program.
Ben's
conscientious
efforts
at
guiding
the
development
of
the
Unidata
2008
proposal
over
the
last
few
months
are
especially
commendable.
The
collaborative
and
multi-disciplinary
contracts
and
alliances
he
has
forged
will
benefit
the
program
significantly,
and
we
look
forward
to
his
ongoing
contributions
and
collegial
interactions.
ACTION
5:
Unidata
will
check
the
viability
of
having
a
Unidata
special
IIPS
session
during
the
2004
AMS
Annual
Meeting
on
IDV
applications
and
use.
ACTION 6: Check on feasibility of providing continuing education credit through a university, UCAR/NCAR, for a K-12 teacher to attend the 2003 summer workshop. (Tony Rockwood will check with Metro State)
ACTION 7: Ben Domenico will discuss the GIS aspect of the workshop with Olga Wilhelmi, NCAR/ESIG, to derive ideas for speakers and attendees for the workshop from the GIS community.
ACTION 8: Unidata will coordinate with COMET and provide a "community" announcement for COMET's Polar Orbiting modules.
ACTION 9: Ben Domenico will follow up with Baron Services on questions pertaining to calibration, data format, etc, of 80 TV-owned radars providing surveillance and constant scanning. If feasible, this might be considered as another point-to-point community resource.
RESOLUTION 2: The Users Committee requests that the Policy Committee send forward letters to NWS, NESDIS, and other groups as appropriate, to continue CRAFT or a CRAFT-like initiative for the purposes of real-time WSR-88D level II data distribution using Unidata LDM/IDD system in order to provide timely data to the university community and to complete the plan to archive all WSR-88D level II data at NCDC for access by the university community for education and research.
Linda
Miller
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lmiller@unidata.ucar.edu
External
Liaison,
Unidata
University
Corporation
for
Atmospheric
Research
P.O.
Box
3000
Boulder,
CO
80307-3000
303
497-8646
fax:
303-497-8690