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Director’s Report

Director’s Report. Unidata Policy Committee Meeting 5 February 2004 Mohan Ramamurthy Unidata Program Center UCAR Office of Programs Boulder, CO. Community Relations: Meetings.

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Director’s Report

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  1. Director’s Report Unidata Policy Committee Meeting 5 February 2004 Mohan Ramamurthy Unidata Program Center UCAR Office of Programs Boulder, CO

  2. Community Relations:Meetings • UPC staff actively participated at both the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco (Dec 8-12) and the AMS Annual Meeting in Seattle (Jan 10-15) • A new Unidata booth was unveiled at the AMS Annual Meeting in Seattle • Compared to some other UCAR booths, there was good traffic through the Unidata booth; • Staff had many useful interactions with the community;

  3. Russel L. DeSouza Award • This award honors “individuals whose energy, expertise, and active involvement enable the Unidata Program to better serve the geosciences.” Honorees personify Unidata's ideal of a community that shares data, software, and ideas through computing and networking technologies. • 2004 Award Winner: Dan Vietor, Unisys Corporation (formerly at Purdue University) “Your development of WXP enabled universities to analyze and visualize weather observations and forecasts and helped pioneer the production of graphical meteorological products for access via the World Wide Web.”

  4. AMS Annual Meeting Papers • The staff was involved in a record number of 15 papers at the AMS Annual Meeting • Topics covered: • IDV and Level II data • Merging NetCDF and HDF5 • LDM and THREDDS • MeteoForum • GIS integration • NNTP and P2P technologies for data delivery • IDV as a collaborative tool • Community driven portal with web services • LEAD • VGEE

  5. Unidata Presentations: A Sample

  6. Meetings • Unidata was involved in two important meetings during the AMS Annual Meeting in Seattle • MeteoForum meeting (Jan 10, 2004, Organized by COMET) • MeteoForum participants met to discuss the progress and future of the MeteoForum project • 18 participants from WMO, WMO RMTCs (6), COMET, Unidata, and UOP; • IDD-Brazil inaugurated at the end of December; 4 sites already participating; • Reverse data flow (from S. America to U. S.) may begin soon • CRAFT-CONDUIT (C2) meeting (Jan 14, 2004, USWRP) • The two groups are being combined • The C2 Advisory Committee will be responsible for developing strategies for Internet access to real time (streaming) meteorological observations, as well as output from both experimental and operational forecast models, for use by the education and research communities. • Committee will comprise university, government and private sector members

  7. Staffing • Hiring of two Software Engineers for LEAD in final stages. • Hiring of an Administrative Assistant for the front office is in progress. • A Software Engineer in the IDV group left UPC in early January to pursue other interests. • Another Software Engineer/Web Developer is no longer working as of this week. A silver lining: These (temporary) vacancies are resulting in some easing of pressure on our FY04 budget

  8. Space: The Final Frontier! • FL4 remodeling put on hold – not enough money in the budget • Remodeling won’t happen for until the next bond release • Meanwhile, some FL4 programs will be moved around • UPC will expand into the south wing, occupying the entire east wing, 1st Floor • Have more space • Have all staff in one wing Unidata

  9. Equipment Awards • Equipment awards will again be available this year; • Announcement to community made in early January 2004; A reminder went out on February 3rd; • Total pool in FY04: $100K • More tomorrow

  10. Real-time Data Flows • As noted at the last two Polcom meetings, LDM-6 has greatly improved the timeliness and reliability of data streams. • As a result, 29 sites are now receiving CONDUIT data • 35 sites are receiving WSR-88D Level II data via CRAFT • NWS will use LDM-6 to distribute WSR-88D Level II data operationally. • Unidata Real-time data distribution via IDD/LDM6

  11. Operational LDM Use Recently, the Korean Meteorological Administration has started using the LDM for some of their internal data distribution to/from nearly 40 weather service offices.

  12. Email Support Load The total support load at the UPC remains high and appears to be varying seasonally.

  13. Proposal Activity • Unidata is collaborating in a couple of new ITR proposals: • Advancing digital gazetteers:  Theory and practice of the integration of space and place in networked information systems, PI: Linda Hill, UCSB. (Unidata Co-PI: Ben Domenico) • A comprehensive framework for use of NEXRAD data in Hydrometeorology and Hydrology, PI: Krajewski, U. Iowa (Unidata Co-PI: Mohan Ramamurthy) • ESIP/OGC proposal to NSF • Earth System Science - Improving Interdisciplinary Information Sharing, PI: Liping Di, George Mason U. (Unidata Co-PI: Ben Domenico)

  14. State of the Program: A Snapshot • Community relations : Green • Data sources : Green • IDD : Green • Software Development : Yellow (due to support load) • Collaborations : Green • Staffing : Yellow • Support Load : Green • Space :Yellow,soon to be Green • Finances (Core) : Yellow (More in budget report) • Non-core funding : Yellow (More in budget report)

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