Minutes from 5 November 2008

2008/11/05 CSEP meeting

Attendees: Yan K., Phil M., Jeremy Z., John Y., Masha L.

1. Kagan-Jackson Smooth Seismisity models for California:
   • Yan made code changes to read UTC hour adjustment from the file:
     
     1. Masha made these changes earlier to be able to reproduce forecasts
     2. Masha will compare codes
   • Masha fully automated five-year and one-day model within CSEP:
     
     1. ZMAP format of Yan's input catalog is used for the model acceptance test - part of nightly CSEP build
     2. Applied scale factors provided by Yan to get magnitude bins for generated forecasts:

        • Used M>=3.95 table for short-term and long-term forecasts

        • Ignoring bins with 3.95<=M<4.95 for long-term forecast

     3. Applied rate conversion from (events per day per km^{2) to (events per forecast period per degree}2):

        • Jeremy reminded about 0.1 cell dimension for California forecasts
   • Nightly crontab scripts on csep-cert were updated to include new forecasts groups:
     

     1. one-day-models-11.2008:

        • ETAS, STEP, and KJSSOneDayCalifornia models
        • N, L and R tests

     2. five-year-rate-models-11.2008:

        • KJSSFiveYearCalifornia and Triple-S-FiveYearCalifornia models.

        • N, L, R, ROC and MASS tests
   • John updated the web-viewer to display new groups results
   • Working on acceptance test for rate conversions
2. Upgrade of New Zealand testing center to CSEP V8.10:
   • Matt might have some time on Thursday
   • Remaining tasks:
     
     1. Danijel will work on GMT script for forecasts maps
     2. Grid shifting - Danijel suggested to use global grid notation
     3. Web-viewer for the results, still to be resolved to use:
        • Stand-alone web page or
        • Introduce as new testing region within existing CSEP results page
3. Jeremy on CSEP meeting in Italy:
   • File-based models for Italy will be submitted to testing center in Zurich
   • Start date is scheduled for April 1, 2009
4. Tasks for CSEP V9.1:
   • Fixes for ANSS catalogs:
     

     1. Trac ticket https://intensity.usc.edu/trac/csep/ticket/113

     2. Trac ticket https://intensity.usc.edu/trac/csep/ticket/114

   • Masha sent an e-mail to Max asking if he will submit one-day ETAS model for California:
     
     1. Have not heard back from Max yet
   • Anna Maria has not responded yet if she will work on resolving an issue for SWPacific testing region:
     
     1. New csep-devel server reproduces the problem observed on csep-cert
   • Kagan-Jackson Smooth Seismisity models for California:
     • Long-term (5-year)
     • Short-term (1-day)
   • Global testing

   • Toolkit documentation for CSEP

   • Source code documentation - to make it available through the web
5. csep-op:
   • John will start archival and moving of operational data to new storage