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Short Term Goals • Development of a NOMADS Program Plan and Operating Procedures and Project Milestones for FY03. Action:Rutledge. Due (for team review): 1/03 • Work to secure resource funding. Action: NCDC, NCEP, GFDL, CDC. Due: on-going • Determine relationship between NOMADS and DOE’s Earth System Grid (ESG). Action: Rutledge, Williams. • Finalize NCDC’s GDS system and get NOA APort data online. Action: Rutledge. Due 3/03 • Complete BUFR station data handling capability for GrADS. Action: Doty (COLA) Due: 12/02 • Develop an integrated Web presence for NOMADS: a unified front-end Web Page for NOMADS. Action: Hankin, Williams, Kerr, Rutledge. Due: 3/03 • Work with existing efforts (GODAE, GCOS, BADC, et al.,), to ensure for cross disciple inter-operability and plan for international data management meeting (see Section 4) Long Term Goals • Further develop NOMADS and CEOS-Grid and ESG partnerships • Secure funding resources for all core NOAA participants: NCEP, GFDL, NCDC, PMEL, and CD