Larry McDaniel
Larry McDaniel. In FY2007 Larry McDaniel developed code to do the complex heat wave calculations previously done by hand. "G. Meehl and C. Tebaldi (2004). More intense, more frequent and longer lasting heat waves in the 21st century. Science". This will allow greater use of this method.
Larry McDaniel also started developing a 48 state 55 year dataset made up of daily maximum, minimum temperatures and precipitation. This data set will have countless uses including heatwave, changes in precipitation frequency and/or intensity from 1950-2004.
Larry along with Seth McGinnis developed the quality control tools for testing the NARCCAP data that will be be published on the "Earth System Grid" here at NCAR. Larry has worked with Luca Cinquini in the SCD Visualization Lab on web pages to provide access to the 140 terabytes of NARCCAP data. http://www.narccap.ucar.edu/
Larry worked with Paty Romero-Lankao on her Cities project and the database provided by a possible funding group at the "World Bank".
Larry worked with graduate student Lynette Laffea and her GIS animation project. This work involved developing methods to handle very large data sets in a limited GIS context. It has led to an ongoing project to develop tools for emergency workers by tying together observed and model projections of hurricanes into a GIS layering system.
In support of the proposal to compare Los Angeles and Mexico City, Larry compared heat wave occurrence and duration in the two cities using NCEP R2 data and observed data. This required developing observed data from both locations and working with Neil Lott from NCDC and his new global product. Larry also compared NCEP R2 with the observed data sets. Larry provided data sets for health and weather project.
Larry ran the "Coffee Talk" seminar program again this year. Larry brought in outside speakers as well as end users to expand our input from those outside ISSE-NCAR and to increase our exposer to the same. Larry also encouraged ISSE people to give talks so we better understand what ISSE is doing. This work provides a context for interactions that might not other wise take place.
Funding sources
This research is supported by the National Science Foundation with additional funding provided by USGRP (CMAP) and NSF SPECIAL.