MERRA Short Course at AMS

We will have a short course at the AMS Annual meeting January 11 in Phoenix AZ. It will cover an overview of the system and physics, the validation that we have already done, but the most important and interesting component will include several hands on tutorials working with data online. Given that the volume of data will be quite large, the subsetting and previewing tools should be useful to researchers to target the data they require. The audience will likely be graduate students or researchers who work directly with the data. Several tools that are used regualrly at the GMAO to manipulate the data, formats and grids will be demonstrated.

The announcment is on this page: http://www.ametsoc.org/MEET/annual/call.html and the registration is currently open. The AMS will shortly publish an agenda, and we are currently working on adding more details to that regarding the tutorials.

While MERRA won't be completed by then, it will be nearly halfway complete. Also, by then data will be accessible online.