DRAFT Agenda
Unidata Policy Committee
Monday and Tuesday, 28 - 29 April 2008
NSF Headquarters, Arlington, Virginia
Room 370, Stafford I (main building)
Monday, April 28
8:00 Continental Breakfast
8:30 Administrative Matters (Businger)
- Approve Agenda
- Set next Meeting Dates
- Approve Summary Notes from October 2007 meeting
- Review of action items
and resolutions from the fall meeting:
- Resolution 1: The
Policy Committee recommends that the Program Center continue to facilitate climate data services development
- Resolution 2: The Policy Committee encourages the Program to explore the feasibility of delivering real-time air quality data to the community.
- Action Items:
- 1. The Policy Committee recommends that the Unidata Users Committee explore the possibility of adding an NCAR representative to its membership which could be ex-officio. (Complete.)
- 2. The committee recommends that Unidata proceed in coordinating with COSMIC and its sponsors the distribution of COSMIC data using Unidata technology. This would include a possible modification of the registration agreement currently in place. (Complete.)
- 3. The NASA and NOAA agency representatives will provide updates on new observing instruments associated with their respective agencies, e.g., EOS, NPOESS, and GOES. (Agenda item; without a NASA representative, EOS will not be discussed.)
- 4. The Committee requests that Unidata send a representative to EPA's data summit to be held in spring 2008. (Complete. Domenico attended.)
- 5. The Policy Committee requests that the Users Committee determine which of the available EPA data should be distributed using Unidata technology. (Users committee has initiated steps to identify the data.)
9:15 Director's Report (Ramamurthy)
10:15 Break
10:30 Budget Report (Mitchell, Ramamurthy)
11:00 Users Committee Report (Lackmann presented by Miller)
11:15 Agency Report
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National Weather Service (Spayd)
12:15 Box lunch
1:15 Software Transitions at Unidata (Ramamurthy, Uccellini, Rew) (Tab 28)
- 1:15 Setting the stage (Ramamurthy)
- 1:30 GEMPAK, CONDUIT, and Model Development (Uccellini)
- 2:15 Climate Services Update (Uccellini)
3:15 Break
- 3:30: LDM Development (Rew)
4:00 UNAVCO GPS Meteorology Session (Bevis presented by Businger)
5:00 Adjourn for dinner
6:30 Working Dinner at Domaso Trattoria Moderna, 1121 North 19th Street, Arlington, VA 22209, Tel: 703.351.1211
Tuesday, April 29th
8:00 Continental Breakfast
8:15 NSF Status Report (Jacobs)
9:00 CF Conventions Support by Unidata (Rew)
9:30 Use of netCDF-4 in GOES-R (Richard Ullman, NASA)
10:00 Break
10:15 Calibrating long range lightning detection networks (Businger)
10:45 Funding Proposal (Tab 29)
- Anticipating Reviewers' Questions and Comments
- Preparing for the Review Panel
11:30 Wrap up
12:00 Adjourn
Address questions or comments to Jo Hansen at jhansen@unidata.ucar.edu
