Unidata Users Committee Meeting
Agenda
11-12 April 2011
Unidata Conference Room, FL4
Boulder, Colorado

Committee Members

Monday, 11 April 2011

8:15-8:45 - Continental Breakfast

8:45-9:00 - Administrative Items

• Welcome
• Date for Fall Meeting (joint meeting?)
• Review of October 2010 Meeting Summary
• Review of October 2010 Action Items .

9:15 - Director's Report - Mohan Ramamurthy

10:00 - Break

10:15 - Polar satellite data - Kevin Tyle, All

10:30 - Lightning data - Tom Yoksas and Linda Miller

10::45 - UserComm member nominations (replacing 4 members) - Francina Dominguez, Brendon Hoch, Brian Etherton, Larry Oolman

11:00 - DeSouza Award - All

11:15 - AMS Experience - Stefan Cecelski, et al.

11:30 - Lunch

• GEOPOD: An interactive module for navigating and probing geophysical data
  • ReadyTalk presentation - 20 min presentation, 10 min Q&A

12:00 - Stretch, walk, relax

12:30 - CONDUIT Update - Becky Cosgrove

• Current status (Becky)
• Responses to CONDUIT announcement of new data availability (Tom Yoksas, Becky Cosgrove, Linda Miller)
• Next steps - All

12:45 - Update on AWIPS II - Michelle Mainelli and Michael James

• Mainelli - current status
• Discussion of deployment, training and support plans - James

1:45 - Status Reports

• AWIPS-II - James
• CADIS - Weber, Ramamurthy
• Casestudies Case Studies - Weber
• Community Services - Miller, Weber, Dirks
• Decoders - Kambic
• Admin
• Equipment Awards - Mitchell
• Training Workshop - Campbell
• Meeting and Travel Coordinator - Emery
• Outreach - Domenico
• GEMPAK and NAWIPS - James
• Hydro-NEXRAD- Ramamurthy, Weber
• IDV Development - Ho, Chastang
  • Demo of Ensembles
  • Demo of Contour labels
• IDD - Schmidt, Weber, Yoksas
• International Activities - Yoksas
• LDM - Emmerson
• McIDAS - Yoksas
• NetCDF - Rew, Hartnett, Heimbigner
• Next Generation LDM - Emmerson
• RAMADDA - Chastang
• Support - Yoksas, Oxelson
• THREDDS - Caron, Davis
• TDS - Davis
• NetCDF Java & CDM - Caron
• Comprehensive Metrics Information

3:15 - Break

3:30 - AWIPS II and IDV advisory committee discussion - all

3:45 - Survey update - Tom Whittaker, Jennifer Oxelson, all

• Stefan Cecelski - student survey
• survey summary
• survey results

4:30 - Site Contacts - reports

5:00 - Adjourn

5:45 p.m. - Reception/dinner - Damon Room, Mesa Lab

Tuesday, 12 April 2011

8:15 - Continental Breakfast

8:45 - Blue Sky Session - Whittaker

• Future needs

10:00 - Break

10:15 - Begin workshop theme discussion for 2012 Triennial workshop

11:15 - Additional topics and discussion

12:00 - Adjourn

Linda Miller, Community Services, Unidata
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307-3000
303-497-8646 fax: 303-497-8690