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EVA Working Group Teleconference

Please use the following numbers:
Toll Free Number:  866-703-9626 
Pass Code:  767574 

Participants:   Aritra Dasgupta, Jorge Poco, Dave Vieglais, Yaxing Wei, Bob Cook, Bill Hargrove, Dave Vieglais, Shi Shi Liu, Rosie, Steve Aulenbach, Claudio Silva, Christopher Schwalm, Paolo, Vineet Yadav

Not able to attend: Forrest Hoffman, Debbie Huntzinger, Jim Randerson, Anna Michalak, Peter Thornton, Bertram Ludaescher, 


Meeting Agenda:
(1) plans for the EVA Working Group over the next six months (10 minutes)
(2)  Short Presentation via WebEx:  Jorge Poco, NYU - Poly grad student "Analyzing / visualizing output from Terrestrial Biosphere Models using UV CDAT" (20 minutes)
(3) UV-CDAT discussion (10 minutes)
    - usability
    - additional analysis / visualization functionality for model output 
(4) plans to expand UV-CDAT functionality to include benchmarking (10 minutes) 
(5) other items?


Meeting Notes:

(1) plans for the EVA Working Group over the next six months (10 minutes)
 
DataONE Post-Doc:  Aritra Dasgupta
Intern:  Jorge Poco
 
EVA 
1.     add functionality for model intercomparison
 * based on data from the North American Carbon Program Regional Synthesis and MsMTIP
 * look at interannual variability, spatial differences in carbon sources and sinks
 * a priori clustering of models based on their structure – algorithms used to represent various ecosystem processes.  Do models that have similar structure behave similarly (and behave differently from those that have a different structure)?
2.     add benchmarking functionality to UV-CDAT
 *  gridded observations – treat similar to model output
 * use ILAMB and MsTMIP benchmarking algorithms and scoring embedded in UV-CDAT
 
 
Meetings / Telecons
 * November 27 – this telecom 
 * Early January teleconference – UV-CDAT and planning for the EVA Brooklyn meeting
 * January 22-23, NYU-Poly, Brooklyn
   * Logistics:  Room block at the Brooklyn Marriott is being finalized
 * February 7-8, MsTMIP workshop in Albuquerque
 *  Monthly – bimonthly teleconferences
 *  Perhaps a July 2013 Working Group Meeting
 
(2)  Short Presentation via WebEx:  Jorge Poco, NYU - Poly grad student "Analyzing / visualizing output from Terrestrial Biosphere Models using UV CDAT" (20 minutes)
 
code for UV-CDAT with some features added by Jorge will be available for download in about a month

UV-CDAT Project website: http://uv-cdat.llnl.gov

 
(3) UV-CDAT discussion (10 minutes)
Usability
 * UV-CDAT can access data from local desktop or from server (FTP/HTTP/OPeNDAP/DataONE)
 * Claudio's group is working on parallelization of VisTrails workflow, which should speed up processing
 
additional analysis / visualization functionality for model output 
    
 * K-means clustering -- can be added
   * part of a JAVA package that is integrated with VisTrails / UV-CDAT
 
 * add basic analysis capabilities through VisTrails workflows
   * base level analysis modules within VisTrails:
     * common analysis capabilities like subsetting, regridding, units conversion, etc
     * Build modules to wrap UDUNITS functions (for units conversion)      
     * better handle CF-convention (preserve/propagte CF metadata through                      CDMS functions)

 * Add benchmark analysis modules which can be readily used in VisTrails workflows to handle CF-compliant data files

 * Model Structural Characteristics
   * easily toggle the inclusion or exclusion of model structure characteristics and how they influence the clustering of the outputs
   * turn on/off selected model characteristic components, changes shall be reflected in visualization interactively
   * may be useful to determine which model features / characteristics are critical 
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(4) plans to expand UV-CDAT functionality to include benchmarking (10 minutes) 
 
 
(5) other items?
Acton:  Cook to send out a poll for the next teleconference (early January)