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Community Outreach

• Invited to participate in the NOAA Priorities and Planning Workshop held 15 February 2000.
• Member of the Program Committee for the IIPS. Co-chaired the AMS-Unidata Special Session in Long Beach, CA, on 11 January 2000.
• Trip to National Weather Service (NWS) and to NASA Goddard in December, 1999, for a CONDUIT Working Group Meeting to discuss the status of making high resolution data for the university community and the US Weather Research Program.
• Trip to the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in November, 1999, to discuss access and distribution of archived data.

Data Access and Distribution

• Working with Richard Hogue and Ekaterina Radeva, Canadian Meteorological Services, on distribution of the Global Environmental Multiscale (GEM) Model, using LDM technology. Ekaterina, the technical contact, is making great progress with testing currently being performed.

• As an outgrowth of CONDUIT, the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) is offering the NOGAPS data. Plans and policies are underway to use the LDM from FNMOC to make the data sets available to the Unidata university and USWRP community. The USWRP working group will assist in defining the initial data sets for availability to the community.

• Difax broadcast will probably end Sept 30, 2000. The products can be created with gridded data. The NWS will provide a six-month sunsetting time frame.

• Access to data from the AIRNOW Empact program at EPA is moving slowly. Each state has different regulations and data requirements. Steps are being taken by the EMPACT group to break through the barriers, but they are moving very slow.

Information from the AMS meeting includes:

• Jim Fenix, Chief of Office of Systems Operations, NWS (discussions about distribution of Level III (NIDS) radar data to Unidata as a test site using the LDM)
• Louis Uccellini, Director, National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) (discussions about CONDUIT, e.g., reliability issues need to be satisfied, broadening the community of users when stable)
• Steve Chiswell and I attended the NOAAPort/FOS meeting conducted by NOAA/NWS during the AMS meeting
  • International-A coordinating agency, Finland Limited, is the coordinating agency for 12 European members tasked with collecting information on data difficulties, and acts as liaison to the WMO Council and other agencies on environmental data access issues.
  • NIDS- (Level III) beginning Oct, 2000 will introduce various options;
    • Dedicated FTP (requires T1)- large set of WSR-88D products
    • Multicast Open Group Broadcast of WSR-88D Products-large set of WSR-88D products
    • NOAAport-set of WSR-88D products to meet NWS operational needs
    • NWSTG Servers-Subset of available WSR-88D products
  • Floyd Hauth, Chairman of the AMS/IIPS (discussion about the success of the Unidata special session, I am invited to participate on the AMS/IIPS program committee for 2001) Some interesting statistics from the AMS 2000 meeting in Long Beach are:
    • 3000 attendees
    • 700 attended the IIPS sessions
    • 1600 presentations
    • number of exhibits down by 12
  • The next AMS scheduled meetings include:
    • 2001 - Albuquerque, NM
    • 2002 - Orlando, FL
    • 2003 - Long Beach, CA
    • 2004 - Seattle, WA
    • 2005 - San Diego, CA

• DODS and Case Studies status reports provided by Ethan Davis and Jeff Weber, respectively.

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