Participated in the planning and development of the 5-year ITR proposal
submitted to the NSF, titled Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery
(LEAD), a collaborative proposal "for use in accessing, preparing,
assimilating, predicting, managing, mining, and displaying a broad array of
meteorological and related information, independent of format and physical
location."
Attended a luncheon for John Lumsden, Chief Executive, Meteorological Service
of New Zealand, Limited. (MetService)
Planning underway for the AMS Annual
Meeting, 9-13 February 2003 in Long Beach, CA. for two sessions:
AMS-IIPS Internet Applications and Web Portals, co-chair with Nancy
Soreide, Pacific Marine Environment Laboratory
Community announcement was sent 13 May 2002.
Working with Rajul Pandya to coordinate an Education-IIPS Joint Session
on Digital Libraries
Continued meetings on MeteoForum with an eye toward populating the MeteoForum
Web site with important information from the collaborators..
Case Studies and DODS
Yuan Ho continues to divide his time between the Case Studies and DODS support.
Ethan Davis is dividing his time between DODS and THREDDS.
Jeff Weber is dividing his work schedule between Case Studies and IDD-LDM
support (including SuomiNet). Jeff is also representing Unidata in GIS-related
activities.
Additional information is provided in the status reports on DODS and Case
Studies.
Data Access and Distribution
Worked with Richard Hogue, Canadian Meteorological Center, for Global Environmental
Multiscale Model (GEM)
point-to-point data distribution. A community announcement was sent on 22
April and currently there are four northern sites receiving the data.
Continued efforts on CRAFT Level II (base) data access and distribution.
There are currently 38 radars
sending data (via LDM) to NCDC's mass store.
Continued tracking of GIS activities within UCAR/NCAR and the community.
