[ESP] Rejoining ESP!

[Glenn Rutledge]

That is great news Chris.  Thanks (from the community).  We are so close 
to realizing the long term goals that we can all see, but of course are 
not quite there.  I'd like to give a quick update for you on my progress 
   here FYI and hopefully factor it in your plans.

NOMADS continues to develop, and even tho' I've not had much to say 
lately, a great deal of work is being done here at NCDC, NCEP, and 
Unidata, for the the Weather side of things.  We will soon (1-2 weeks) 
unveil a major new section on NCDC's main page that provides real-time 
access to NWP's, an Interface to plot browse and access thru both 
traditional (ftp, http (wget etc.) or image download), and thru NOMADian 
methods (our GrADS-DODS Server).  I've coordinated with NCEP greatly in 
these areas (see http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/ncdc-ui/ncdc.html).  With 
the NCDC archive folks, I've also redesigned the entire existing archive 
that was not exactly organized in the best way, and developed a parallel 
ingest for them to conform to our NOMADS ingest.

We have already begun the Interface to the archive thru our GDS, which 
will give us access to NCDC's retrospective holdings.  Finally, we have 
begun the process of INgesting the New NCEP Regional Reanalysis that we 
will hold on disk (~10TB).  On the Grid side of things, we've configured 
our CEOS-Grid server w/ Globus and work with the CEOS Team on site 
monitoring tools they have established.  Next up is NOMADS access thru 
that Grid.

Our recent telconf calls w/ you and Leetma/Karl fall a bit short in my 
mind on it's purpose as requested by Ron Stouffer: the Model HelpDesk, 
but I'll work to do much of that on-line (explaining models etc.).  I've 
done that with US-based NWP;s for our site- and will do so for Climate. 
  My boss, Russ Vose, is advancing work with you (Brian?), on the new 
CLimate Normals using climate models.  He is on contact with GFDL on 
this action form the Leetma/Karl meetings.

I guess I state all this since it looks like I'd like to contribute as 
much as possible to serve up, or point to, the Climate side. Linking the 
NWP and climate is a priority, and I hope you can keep this in mind in 
your meetings.

Regarding metadata- maybe a focus on describing it rather on search 
would be first up.  Does NetCDF hold the answers for GFDL/NCAR/PCMDI, or 
does this need work?

The discovery part is major, and I still look to THREDDS for these 
answers even tho' that is in the future...

Thanks again for stepping up to this...and let me know how I can best be 
involved.    Regards, Glenn



Christopher Kerr wrote:
> Well after many emails from ESP members asking me to rethink my decision 
> about leaving the Data Portal Project in addition to my management saying 
> don't do it, I have decided to rejoin the project!
> 
> At our last meeting, we talked about having a followup meeting in England in 
> September to talk about Data Portal Design and Meta Data Standards. I'm 
> prepared to organize the meeting. Does anyone have any thoughts on the 
> timing of the meeting and the agenda?
> 
> Christopher
> 
> Dr. Christopher L. Kerr
> Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
> Forrestal Campus
> Princeton University                             
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