McIDAS Status

McIDAS, ldm-mcidas, Unidata-Wisconsin, Collaborations, and Cooperating Community Server Activities
Winter 2004

Tom Yoksas
February 27, 2003

Vision

Efforts referenced within this report are based on five of the six endeavors articulated in the Unidata 2008 Proposal:

Unidata McIDAS-X, -XCD

ldm-mcidas, Unidata-Wisconsin datastream, and NOAAPORT ingest

Collaborations

Collaboration activities remain mostly unchanged since the May 2003 report. Details can be found in May 1, 2003 Policy Committee Report.

NWS NEXRAD Level II Data Relay

The most active collaboration, even though it is being conducted in spare time, is the MeteoForum initiative that is funded by UCAR Director's Opportunity Fund (Jack Fellows). A MeteoForum status report is include separately.

User Support

  • continuing support of over 150 sites

  • continuing participation by foreign universities (McIDAS-X, LDM): Argentina, Brazil, China (Hong Kong), Costa Rica, France, Portugal, United Kingdom, Jamaica, Mexico, Spain, Russia (Institute of Atmospheric Optics in Siberia), Thailand. Barbados will join this list as early as May

  • statistics for UPC support email can be found in a separate report

Cooperating Community Data Servers - Prelude to THREDDS

Status unchanged since May 2003 report. Details can be seen in May 1, 2003 Policy Committee Report.

This page was prepared by Tom Yoksas.