Due to the current gap in continued funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program Center has temporarily paused most operations. See NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations for details.
Due to the current gap in continued funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program Center has temporarily paused most operations. See NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations for details.
Action 1: Doug Dirks will collaborate with Rich Signell on articles for the E-letter on case studies and ocean use of Unidata tools for the E-letter
Action 2: UPC will continue to explore tools for tracking of support messages, bugs, etc. to allow visibility by the user community.
Action 3: Michelle Mainelli will provide monthly status updates on AWIPS II from NWS/NCEP to post on the Unidata Web site to keep theUnidata community apprised of the latest activities regarding GEMPAK/NAWIPS migration
Action 4: Becky Cosgrove will provide the product descriptions, what’s available and will include URLs for information and sample products for consideration for the CONDUIT feed.
Action 5: UserComm members will send sample GEMPAK scripts to a RAMADDA repository to aid Unidata in identifying what is missing with IDV. If not sufficient, then solicit input from the gembud list.
Action 6: Tom Whittaker will draft a letter to WSI indicating that it is preferred to have the global lightning data in real time, rather than with a 60 minute delay. This will be brought to the Policy Committee and requested that it be co-signed.
Action 7: Doug Dirks will provide an E-letter article about the lightning data.
Action 8: DeSouza Award solicitation should provide the template for nominations.
Action 9: Anne Case-Hanks, Kevin Tyle, and Patrick Market are going to go through the survey comments, group them for the UPC so they can provide responses (grouping to be provided to UPC by 1 November)
Action 10: Tom Whittaker will draft a letter to David Knight thanking him for working through the issues related to NLDN data distribution, and the past 14 years of data provision.
Action 11: Send Michelle Mainelli an email about what GIS data (via a web interface) UserComm members would like to get from NWS and in what format (shape files, KML, GeoTIFF, etc.)
Action 12: Tom Whittaker will work with Jennifer Oxelson to get the graphs and text from the survey to send to the community.