AMS Short Course on Datasets for use in Climate Applications

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Dear "all"

Thank you for sharing all these products with the whole community !

Hernán

2009/12/15 Mike Bosilovich <mike.bosilovich at gmail.com>

> Jennifer and Wesley,
>
> I'm glad to see you making this effort. It's a lot of work, but a lot
> of good can come form it!  Putting the materials on-line is a
> no-brainer, as many people who would like to be there, just can't make
> it for various reasons.
>
> For example, when we did this last year for MERRA (Arlindo was a huge
> contributor), we showed some neat examples of GDS serverside scripting
> and also regridding (making MERRA 1/2 degree data match NCEP Gaussian
> grid for differences or support existing routines).  We found many of
> the participants were not aware or the serverside capability.
>
> We also turned some of the MERRA workshop materials into Recipes on
> the GrADS cookbook. The workshop presentations are available:
> http://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/research/merra/presentations/
>
> But also, the local data and all scripts we used are available on
> anonymous ftp:
> ftp://gmaoftp.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/papers/mikeb/MERRA_Workshop/
>
> At the time, we only had a few years of data, but now 1979 through
> 2007 are all online.
>
> Best wishes for a successful workshop (and have fun with it too)!!!
>
> Mike
>
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Jennifer Adams <jma at cola.iges.org> wrote:
> > Dear All,
> > The American Meteorological Society will be offering a 1-day short course
> on
> > Sunday, January 17, 2010 as part of the Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA. I
> > will be teaching two segments: a GrADS tutorial, with a focus on its
> newest
> > features, followed by a live demonstration of how to use GrADS to analyze
> > remote data sets, including the forecast data from the THORPEX
> Interactive
> > Grand Global Ensemble (TIGGE) project, which is behind a GDS at NCAR. The
> > agenda also includes talks on accessing data resources at NCDC, NCEP,
> ESRL,
> > and PCMDI, plus a review of satellite-derived data sets and the PRISM
> > climate mapping system. For those who are interested in attending, the
> full
> > agenda is here:
> >     http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/annual/shortcoursedatasets.pdf
> > and registration information is here:
> >     http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/annual/registration.html#short
> > --
> > Jennifer M. Adams
> > IGES/COLA
> > 4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302
> > Calverton, MD 20705
> > jma at cola.iges.org
> >
> >
> >
>
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