2015_0106 DW Operations
Date: Jan. 6, 2015 2:30pm MST
Time: 1-866-398-2885 and access code 747721
Agenda:
1. Review action items from 12/16/14 DW ops meeting - Rodger
2. Status of 2011a MPE - Zac, Ralph, Tom
3. DW Visualization Tools - All
- ENVIRON SA tool
- Status of current visualization tools (emissions browser, model-to-obs tool, Dustin's dynmaic tool)
- Design document for future tool development
4. AOB
Wrap up
Attendees: Ralph, Zac, Rodger, Shawn, Dustin, TomCall duration: 2:30-3:28 MST
1. Action items from 12/16 call
Most of the action items from the 12/16 call have been completed. See Actions items from 12/16 meeting. Any carryover items are included in the Action Items below.
Dustin updated the group on the restoration of 2008b platform on viking. He is looking into checksum issues, and is tracking the progress of the recovery on base08b-recovery-progress page.
The group discussed how to deal with the anomalous precipitation signal in the 2008b 36km WRFCAMx met output. It was decided that a "bug" report will be entered in the TSDW forum. After a solution to address the issue is determined, and a bug report is posted to the TSDW fourm, data recipients will be directed to the forum posting.
The dataset holding on the TSDW version of the Query Wizard tool are in the process of being filtered to include only datasets with sites in the 3SAQS 12km modeling domain, and with obs. from or subsequent to 2008. Model-to-obs pairings have been filtered, pending release of the 2011a platform.
2. 2011a MPE
DW will hold off on release of 2011a platform pending approval at next (Feb 2015) Technical Committee. Gail has requested a short cut to datasets in 'review'. The new data request functionality should offer this. The review data sets will be available only to 3SDW Collaborators, who will understand that preliminary data are not for broader distribution.
Providing download capabilities for modeling platforms that are currently in "Review" will require management of user permissions on the website and ftp. Also, the large file size of the 4km output presents the need to provide a means to "slice and dice" output files per user's requests. Such custom requests are currently being accommodated using CAMx scripts. The DW team will look at developing download functionality to generate user defined output as CAMx binaries and/or NetCDF.
3. Visualization Tools
The CIRA group will draft a design document for the development of future visualization and download tools. Considerations are best approaches to mine output files and db content that are stored in the DW, and how to provide these data requests to users. Previous design documents will be reviewed while the group prepares a revised design. The design document will be presented at the upcoming Tech. Committee meeting tentatively scheduled for late Feb. 2016.
Action Items
1. Disks (ID 005 & 006 need to be returned to CIRA) -Ralph will follow up.
2. Roll out of Revised Data Request and Projects pages -Dustin will publish by the end of the week. The new functionality will accommodate the pending data request from Daniel Bon at CDPHE.
3. Publish model-to-obs tool -Shawn is migrating databases to new production db server and will publish model-to-obs tool when db migration is completed. Model-to-obs tool will display AMET generated pairings of observational data and 2011a CAMx output. Make a note to preserve monitoring site types where present, such as urban, background, rural, to facilitate site groupings. Possibly define new site types, such as "high-elevation" for 03 SI assessment.
4. Look into precip. anomaly in 36km WRFCAMx output and post bug report on TSDW froum -Zac
5. Prepare draft Visualization and Data Access Design document. -Rodger will coordinate with the CIRA development group on preparing a draft document. Draft will be presented at the next DW ops. meeting.