In last meeting we discuss about contacting NCAR about disk space for 
posting model level data of T799 NR because SIVO is having a trouble in 
getting space on portal.    However, I am a little reluctant to contact NCAR 
right now.

I hope NASA has disk space other than portal  forinternal use to save
	1. Original NR data as a copy from USB disk
	2.  Re organized disk for NASA use.

If portal is the only place to save original data for NASA, I will contact 
NCAR to save another set of original data.

I also I recommend NASA to purchase 1TB disks ($300-$500) for data 
transfer.

If  NASA has enough internal disk space and purchase 1TB disk for data 
transfer,  I like to standby for contacting NCAR for 4TB disk space.

1.  They are just setting up date base for verification data for T511 NR.
http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/research/JointOSSEs/data/ECMWF_Joint_OSSE_NR_NCAR_Data.h
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It will be confusing to talk about T799 NR right now.  

2.  When I talked about T511 NR verification data in 250GB disk, they were 
already confused and thinking about 4TB data.   Steve Worley of NCAR 
data support was happy to know SIVO will post the complete 4TB data, it 
seems they are ready for 4TB disk space if we ask for. So we do not have to 
start to negotiating before we are sure about what we want.

3.  Data at NCAR/RDA will be accessed by any people.   Although we will 
have a list of users, the data could be easily abused.   From my experience 
during past year, it is hard to make people to study NR even for verification 
data.  Therefore, worrying about abuse and scientific credit may slow down 
the progress in Joint OSSE.  However, it is worth while to observe for 
another year how  T511 verification data will be used before releasing large 
amount of data to NCAR.   Verification data for T799 NR may be OK.

My proposition is

1. Send verification data for T799 NR to NCAR, after we produce initial 
evaluation.   At least draft paper to GRL by Oreste must be ready.   I expect 
this will take at least half year and NCAR will be busy in studying T511 NR. 

2.  For the time being make use of 3TB portal space at SIVO.  Post all 
verification data but only selected model level data.  For example we can 
post model level data of T511 NR for two five weeks period for T799 NR.    
Selected one week from each T799 NR.  

3. Use USB disks to ship large amount of model data.
I recommend NASA to purchase 1TB disks for data transfer.
SWA had trouble in copying 250GB disk in ext3 format.  All other place 
completed the copying within half day but it took one week for SWA.     
MMM had the same trouble at first but solved by switching machine.  It 
seems that 64bits machine is required.


Let me know how you think.