Director

1
Directors Report

• Unidata Policy Committee Meeting
• 5 February 2004
• Mohan Ramamurthy
• Unidata Program Center
• UCAR Office of Programs
• Boulder, CO

2
Community RelationsMeetings

• 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 wont 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)