AGENDA

DAY 1 - August 11, 2005

  8:00

Continental Breakfast

  8:30

Introduction

Chris Elvidge, Earth Observation Group, NGDC

  8:50

Making NOAA´s data more accessible to the scientific community, Chris Fox, Director, NGDC

  9:10

Overview of CLASS, Alex Kidd, CLASS Suitland

  9:50

Break

10:10

Network and Archive Infrastructure
John Kinsfather, NGDC

10:30

CLASS User Requirements and Creation of Climate Data Records, John Bates, NCDC

11:00

Demo of current system, Amy Drew, CLASS Suitland

11:20

Design plans and options under consideration,
Doug Zirkle, CLASS System Engineering Team Chair, CLASS Long-Term Architecture Team member)

12:00

Lunch

13:00

User Community Panel: Presentations on science objectives, what data will be required, with what time delay, access scenarios or preferences. Followed by discussions.

Garrett Campbell, CIRA
Mark Govett and Darien Davis, NOAA FSL
Ron Weaver, NSIDC
William Emery and Dan Baldwin, University of Colorado
John Townshend, University of Maryland
Mohan Ramamurthy, UCAR Unidata

15:00

Break

15:20 - 17:00

Breakout Groups (Weather/Climate, Space, Ocean, Cryosphere, Land)

What standards should be supported? How to convert operational data into research quality products? How much web interface is needed? What data discovery tools are required? What metadata are required? Other issues, topics?