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CONDUIT-CRAFT (C2) Meeting Summary

11 January 2005

San Diego, California

Attendees included:

Lance Bosart, SUNY-Albany
Fred Branski, NWS
Steve Chiswell, Unidata
Gerry Creager, Texas A&M
Tim Crum, ROC
Ben Domenico, Unidata
Kelvin Droegemeier, OU, Chair
Bob Gall, USWRP
Brent Gordon, NCEP
Kevin Kelleher, NSSL
Chris MacDermaid, FSL
Pamela McGowan, ERC
Joel Martin, IRaDS
Steve Meacham, NSF
Linda Miller, Unidata
Mohan Ramamurthy, Unidata
Phil Sharfstein, FNMOC
Louis Uccellini, NCEP
Rich Vogt, ROC
John Ward, NCEP
Tom Yoksas, Unidata

Announcement and Presentations:

Bob Gall announced the ending of the USWRP Office of the Lead Scientist at NCAR in Boulder , Colorado, as of February 2005. The USWRP has sponsored CONDUIT, CRAFT and more recently C2 through the Interagency Working Group, and has provided funding to conduct the annual meetings. We need to explore new mechansims for providing support for future meetings.

CONDUIT Update-Steve Chiswell, Unidata

CONDUIT Update-Brent Gordon, NCEP

CRAFT-Level II Update-Tim Crum, ROC

• Tim Crum presented the current status. There are now 128 Level II sites, with five more expected by the end of March 05. Outages at the Regions have been a problem, and steps are being taken to ameliorate the outages.

Discussion:

The dialog between the users, Unidata, NCEP and the NWS Telecommunications Gateway needs to be enhanced so the products that are needed by the users are added to the data stream.

NCEP is adding other grids and evolving models. Key question: How to get it out to the community? Is this a unique role of C2 → and of tiered nodes? Louis Uccellini said this is viewed as a formal effort but we need to jack this up a notch in terms of getting it into NOAA and NWS infrastructure planning. NCEP's evolving models include the Air Quality and Climate runs (see Brent Gordon's presentation).

The question of satellite data was discussed, especially for legacy data.

The idea of conducting a C2 workshop was discussed. Steve Meacham, NSF, indicated there were additional groups that should be included in such a workshop including operations with a focus on Computer Infrastructure. NOMADS needs to be part of such a workshop. Other considerations for such a workshop include ESG and COLA, groups that do data subsetting, and server side analysis.

Questions remain:

• Reliability
• Evaluation of top tier sites
• Future of NOAA's use of Abilene
• Role of universities in providing data and top tier node
• Adding other data stream products
• Sending information upstream to the forecast offices.
• New data policy (no statements on Quality of Service-how will that be determined?)
• Web access of data
• Is it time to create a more structured formal committee to deal with the issues?

ACTIONS:

• We need to explore options for annual meeting support.
• Louis U. pressed to have two action items completed so we can begin to optimize pushing more grids out.
  • Add GFS (FNL) analysis grids
  • Add Full 3-D Eta at 12 km resolution (Grib2 format)
• When ETA 12km is added, remove existing ETA 20km grids
• Research idea for C2 summer 2005 workshop.
• Consider writing a BAMS article on CONDUIT/CRAFT

Linda Miller
Community Services Manager, Unidata
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307-3000
303-497-8646 fax: 303-497-8690

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