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McIDAS Advisory Committee (MAC)

McIDAS Advisory Committee (MAC). Matthew Lazzara McIDAS Advisory Committee Chair Antarctic Meteorological Research Center Space Science and Engineering Center University of Wisconsin-Madison. Outline. History & Opportunity Charge to the MAC Membership Task 1: Input for McIDAS-V

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McIDAS Advisory Committee (MAC)

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  1. McIDAS Advisory Committee (MAC) Matthew Lazzara McIDAS Advisory Committee Chair Antarctic Meteorological Research Center Space Science and Engineering Center University of Wisconsin-Madison

  2. Outline • History & Opportunity • Charge to the MAC • Membership • Task 1: • Input for McIDAS-V • Task 2: • Panel Discussion • Input from you!

  3. History & Opportunity • History: • Advocating community input & information exchange in the MUG: • MUG Formation and MUG Meetings • Communications Timeout • MUG Bulletin Board (BBS) • McIDAS-XRD (Research & Development) • MDF (MUG Developers’ Forum) • McIDAS Survey • Opportunity: • McIDAS-V development process as a vehicle: • Opportunity for organized community input • McIDAS Users’ Group (MUG) a critical partner • Meet users needs throughout the development process!

  4. Charge to the MAC • Gather input from sites and collaborators! • Provide community input to McIDAS Group at SSEC • Alpha testing and feedback • Provide input/discuss issues as they arise • Two way street: SSEC <==> MAC • 2 year commitment by members • One chair, no secretary - members share duties • One member per site • Virtual meetings monthly • Face to face gathering before MUG Meetings (without McIDAS Group Members)

  5. Membership • Brian Hughes, NOAA ESPC • James Kelly, ABoM • Matthew Lazzara, AMRC (Chair) • Deb Molenar, NOAA/NESDIS RAMMB • Jim Nelson, CIMSS • Louis Nyugen, NASA LaRC • Paul Wahner, NASA CCFC • Tom Yoksas, Unidata UCAR McIDAS Group non-voting members: • Becky Schaffer, SSEC • Dee Wade, SSEC

  6. Task 1: Input for McIDAS-V (part I)(Examples!) • Critical functions to keep: • Large number of frames/loops • Scheduler function • Random loop sequencing • Contour control on point source data (e.g., PTCON with BPAR=, CINT=, LLINC=, etc.) • Be able to keep running current site-developed software • Be able to run unattended (and background processing) • etc.

  7. Task 1: Input for McIDAS-V (part II)(Examples!) • New functions to have: • Ability to work with “new” data formats such as BUFR, HDF5, etc. • Hyperspectral analysis capabilities (multiple display options, statistics, etc.) • Event scheduler • etc. • Extend existing capabilities: • Read and write netCDF files • Improved/updated map outlines files (coastlines, political boundaries, etc.) • etc.

  8. Task 2: Input from you! • Panel Discussion: • What do you like? • What do you not like? • What do you need (and perhaps don’t have now)? • What are your expectations? • What are we forgetting? • Any other comments, questions or suggestions?

  9. Thank You!

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