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Workshop Agenda-Day 1
9:00 Welcome - logistics, and expectations for the meeting Dean Williams
9:05 Day-1 Introduction - Karl Taylor and Bryan Lawrence: Introduction to CF issues to be addressed
9:15 CF Governance
CF website - Dean Williams
Status and remaining issues for website
Standard Name Committee - Alison Pamment
Status, improvements needed, and issues for discussion
Conventions Committee - Karl Taylor
Support and governance issues
10:30 BREAK
10:50 Convention changes & technical discussion
GridSpecs - V. Balaji
Sub-grids & curvilinear Cartesian coordinates
Wording changes - Alison Pamment
Ros Hatcher's wording change
Variable identification - Russ Rew
Coordinate variable identification with the axis attribute
1:15 CF technical discussion continued
Issues concerning underlying principles of CF (e.g., differing needs of obs. vs. models; how much intelligence required of applications; advisability of "pointers" to information external to the netCDF file; standard names vs. other controlled vocabulary; aggregation and discovery files)
2:30 BREAK
2:50 Miscellaneous technical issues (e.g., forecast (valid) time and original (run) time; ensembles; subgrid variation; time & calendar for paleoclimate simulations)
3:50 Software in support of conventions
LibCF - Ed Harnett and Russ Rew
The new NetCDF CF library and status
NetCDF-4 - Russ Rew
Experiences with NetCDF-4 and implications for the new CF conventions
4:50 Completion of any discussions postponed from earlier in the day
5:10 Day wrap-up discussion - Outstanding issues; synthesis of discussion; and action items; promotion of CF; What can we do to make the system work better?
Workshop Agenda-Day 2
9:00 Day-2 Introduction - Karl Taylor
Introduction to AR5 and its Timelines
9:10 Focus on AR5.
V. Balaji, Princeton University
AR5 use cases
Michael Lautenschlager, WDC Climate/Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology
IPCC WG II+III Requirements for AR5 Data Management
Bryan Lawrence, NCAS/BADC
Technical and social requirements for a putative AR5 distributed database of simulation and other data
10:25 BREAK
Steve Hankin, NOAA/PMEL
A proposed architecture for AR5 distributed model analysis and comparison
10:50 AR5 Panel Discussion.
12:10 LUNCH
1:25 Semantic Content of Metadata.
Jon Blower, University of Reading
DEWS: Delivering CF-NetCDF marine data through OGC Map and Coverage Services
Lois Steenman-Clark, University of Reading
NMM - a draft standard semantic metadata
Jeremy Tandy, Met Office
Moving forward from the RAL Feature Workshop
Bert Jagers, Delft Hydraulics, Delft
Storing data for integrated 1D, 2D, 3D models of rivers, estuaries, and seas
Eric Guilyardi, NCAS/BADC
METAFOR, a project for devising a Common Information Model for climate modelling data and models
3:20 BREAK
3:40 Semantic Aggregation of Metadata.
Rocky Dunlap, Georgia Tech
Employing Semantics for Multi-Schema Aggregation
Roy Lowry, British Oceanographic Data Centre
Vocabulary management: a foundation for semantic interoperability through ontology development
4:55 Day Wrap-up Round-table DiscussionOutstanding issues, synthesis of discussion, and action items.
Workshop Agenda-Day 3
9:00 A Focus on User Experience.
Annette Schloss, University of New Hampshire
Connecting large data bases to users through open-source, web-based tools
Michael Burek, NCAR
Experiences in using the Community Data Portal to support Scientific Data Workflows
Serguei Nikonov, GFDL
The LASurator
10:15 BREAK
10:35 Interoperable Systems.
Stephan Kindermann, DKRZ, German Climate Computing Center
Distributed data access and processing in the Collaborative Climate Community Grid (C3-Grid) Project
Jai-Ho Oh, Pukyong National University
Current Progress on the Weather/Climate Information System in Korea
Baudouin Raoult, ECMWF
The EU Funded BRIDGE Project
Michael Burek, NCAR
Experiences with Metadata Federation using OAI and THREDDS
12:40 Wrapup.
