[ESP] Rejoining ESP!

[Lola M Olsen]

Glenn,

We are working to provide the discovery part if you are still interested.

Lola


At 10:28 AM -0400 6/9/03, Glenn Rutledge wrote:
>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                            
>>Princeton, New Jersey  08542
>>Telephone: (609) 452-6573
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