Minutes from 10 December 2008

2008/12/10 CSEP meeting Attendees: Yan K., Phil M., Jeremy Z., Fabian E., Danijel S., John Y., Masha L.

1. Upgrade of New Zealand testing center to CSEP V8.10:
   • Danijel provided GMT script for forecasts maps
   • Nightly crontab jobs run automated CSEP V8.10, results and maps are published to the nz.cseptesting.org/results
2. Wish list from Jeremy:
   • Masha re-processed test date of 2008-07-01 for all RELM forecasts groups on csep-cert:
     
     
     1. Jeremy identified an extra event for 2008/04/26 - Masha traced it to the differences in raw ANSS catalog data
     2. Includes fixes to cutting ANSS catalog to geographical region
3. Masha is helping Kurt Rucker, UCLA student of Dave Jackson, to run some evaluation tests for his and Yan's models
4. Global testing:
   • Data source: CMT
   • No collection or test area
   • Danijel provided master ForecastML template:
     
     
     1. 1.0 x 1.0 degree cells
     2. M5.95 (or M6.0) and above
   • Danijel provided GMT script to generate forecasts maps
   • Jeremy provided a fix for already submitted Triple-S one-year rate-based and alarm-based model
     
     
     1. Code and reference data are updated in SVN
     2. Forecasts with start date of 2008-11-09 were created and evaluated on csep-cert
        • Alarm-based: ROC test
        • Rate-based: N, L, ROC tests
   • John has updated web viewer with new testing region
   • Danijel will submit a model for V9.4
   • Anna Maria has not responded to email - will probably submit the model for V9.4
5. Masha has sent email to Yan summarizing rules for one-day and five-year models within California:
   • Yan recommended to change MCUT value from 400 to 395 to be consistent with existing forecasts groups
   • Masha will make the change and will update reference data for an acceptance test
6. CSEP V9.1 remaining tasks:
   • Masha evaluating forecasts differences generated with Yan's catalog vs. CSEP generated input catalog
   • Trac ticket #117: Switch from wget to Python's urllib for ANSSDataSource.py data retrieval
   • Should decide later which data sources and corresponding acceptance tests should be part of generic CSEP distribution
   • Code freeze is on Monday, 2008-12-15
   • CSEP V9.1 installation on csep-op is on Monday, 01-05-2009
7. CSEP V9.4:
   • Catalog archive of CSEP available raw catalog data
   • Code distributions for testing centers
   • Integration of Japanese codes
   • Staging of existing raw catalog data
   • Global models from Yan, Danijel, Warner and Anna Maria
8. AGU - next week
   • Next week CSEP meeting should be a Skype conference to give an update on release candidate