Continued coordination with Kelvin Droegemeier, OU/CAPS, on CRAFT activities,
including:
A CRAFT presentation
by Kelvin Droegemeier was given October 12, 2000.
February 2001 CRAFT workshop planning is underway
Created a proposal jointly with Dave Fulker to the NWS for
Upgrading CONDUIT with NGI. This is in the process of being implemented.
Current timeframe is January, 2001.
Invited to serve on the program committee and to co-chair Distributed
Data Access Special Session at the AMS/IIPS in Albuquerque, NM, January
2001.
Worked with Users Committee leading toward a successful summer workshop
Pariticipated in a one-day field trip to the S-Pol radar near Goodland,
KS, during the STEPS project, with some NCAR/ATD and Unidata staff (see Murray's
report) to discuss radar displays and to experience a real-time setting
Announcement to community in August regarding the Navy Operational Global
Atmospheric Prediction System (NOGAPS)data from Fleet Numerical Meteorology
and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) using LDM/IDD technology
ACARS and AMDAR International Data now freely available for education and
research purposes, via LDM, from NOAA's Forecast Systems Laboratory. This
announcement was sent to the Unidata community in June and September. The
data now include over 100,000 world wide observations per day.
The Difax data will cease on April 30, 2001. The Unidata Users Committee
has worked with Unidata and community members to make products using gridded
data. A Difax Alternatives
Web page is provided.
Case Studies and DODS
Case studies and DODS reports are provided separately by Jeff Weber and
Ethan Davis.
The case study budget for 2001 has a small increase over previous flat funded
years.
NWS is relying on this project to make case studies available to their
Scientific Operations Officers (SOOs) in AWIPS (netCDF) format during
the coming year.
