[ESP] Rejoining ESP!

[Glenn Rutledge]

Yes Lola,
I am still interested- and apologies for the slip.  I think Ted Haberman 
under the FGDC effort should be mentioned but not sure how much 
discovery is in his thinking....  I think we should get him on-board 
since tho' since he seems to be representing NOAA folks !!!   Glenn

---any info you have on your efforts would be appreciated...



Lola M Olsen wrote:
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> Glenn,
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> We are working to provide the discovery part if you are still interested.
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> Lola
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> At 10:28 AM -0400 6/9/03, Glenn Rutledge wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>> 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
>>> Fax:       (609) 987-5063
>>> Email:     ck@gfdl.noaa.gov
>>> Web:       http://www.gfdl.gov/~ck
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