AQ Cluster Meeting Notes
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- Introduction: R.Husar
- Unidata: Mohan
- Created to provide data to community (30 streams) - 200 universities in subscription service worldwide (U.S., Latin America)
- Universities primary audience, but not the sole audience. System is open.
- Also redistribution of data once reaches the university - other applications like public health.
- Important aspect to this cluster netCDF - HDF IO in 6-9 months
- Started as meteorological data, but become increasingly more interdisciplinary e.g. hydrology, AQ data, etc
- AQ Community also has need for atmospheric datasets so the flow is two ways
- Unidata is a community of communities (oceanography, GIS, AQ)
- Created to provide data to community (30 streams) - 200 universities in subscription service worldwide (U.S., Latin America)
- Husar: Thrilled to have Unidata offer to distribute AQ data. Portal idea: move data from provider to user - centralized approach. Distributed approach, move data as close to user as you can get - surface area approach, putting it in as many places as you can - multiple paths to the same place. RSS - provider publishes whoever subscribes can have it in their home setting, Unidata is an RSS system. Bring individual projects into the cluster?
- Function of ESIP - at first required to be there and it took a while to set own direction and should be self-motivated.
- ex. DataFed - We keep pushing certain activities harder than others, will that help or choke cluster activities?
- Clusters microcosom of federation - group finds internal dynamic that works.
- Portal discussion - fill in
- Public Health Cluster - Presenter name needed
- January meeting covered the scope of community looking for potential partnerships, (int. society of disease survelliance, pan-american health org, CDC) (January Meeting Highlights)
- Determine needs of user community - fostering relationship between providers and users and how do we grow the community.
- What other clusters could we coordinate with? (AQ and Water quality)
- At end of meeting had an e-mail list, but cluster is still not stable.
- This meeting - identify specific projects, collaboration with AQ very natural
- Discussion about data products fitting with user needs
- January meeting covered the scope of community looking for potential partnerships, (int. society of disease survelliance, pan-american health org, CDC) (January Meeting Highlights)
- Wrap-up Session - Husar
- Portals - resources galore. Coherent presentation and portals seem ideal medium, helping users lay out
- Use Case connecting/networking to illustrate and test system
- Public Health - No reason use case shouldn't include public health with impact in near-realtime.