Attendees: John & Alan
With 1.2 release behind us we need to determine future VAPOR directions. Long term we need to identify thrust areas (e.g. WRF support, spherical grid community, etc). Short term (between now and year-end) the focus will be on building VAPOR user community (the WRF community in particular), and gathering success stories from existing user base with which to promote VAPOR.
WRF outreach efforts to be undertaken:
A number of items need to be addressed before meeting with WRF community:
Identified users to be contacted for follow-up meetings. Purpose of meetings is to: 1) assess current status (identify needs, etc), and 2) solicit imagery and text to support VAPOR success stories. Users to be contacted include:
1.2.2 release
1.3 release
Cindy concerned about consulting load on their group if VAPOR made available as a general WRF tool. Assured Cindy that we have resources to provide consulting
Wei had misconception that we only wanted to serve large data users.
Version 3 of WRF coming - may introduce new data type (projections)
Wei suggest adding VAPOR link to WRF user web page - lists tools that can be used with VAPOR
Cindy suggests a WRF quick start guide - where to get software, a sample data set, how to use it - an intro documented tailored to a WRF user
2700 people on WRF user's list - we can mail to it - cindy can provide address
Also have a WRF users guide that VAPOR information can be added to.
June 23 there will be a week-long User workshop - we should touch base in February.
Suggest joint CISL/MMM seminar.
VAPOR only works with ARW core, not NMM core - need to be clear about this
Quick Start!!!