Design an outline for adding analysis and vis algorithms from the Polar domain to Apache Open Climate Workbench

[lewismc]

Apache Open Climate Workbench (OCW) is an effort to develop software that performs climate model evaluation using model outputs from a variety of different sources (the Earth System Grid Federation, the Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment, the U.S. National Climate Assessment and the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program) and temporal/spatial scales with remote sensing data from NASA, NOAA and other agencies. The toolkit includes capabilities for rebinning, metrics computation and visualization.

We recently integrated some cutting edge algorithms for searching for graph-based search for the identification and chatacterization of Mesoscale Convective Complexes (MCC).

I would REALLY like to

• abstract some of the identification, characterization and search functionality present within the MCCSearch codebase
• find a suitable area of relevant Polar-oriented science, of which there is a Polar expert in this field present at the hackathon
• hack the hell out of the codebase in the form of a polarviz branch which would make ways to improving the codebase as well as expending the Apache OCW community in the process. The continued success of OCW relies heavily on engagement with leading scientists... this issue is an effort to advance towards that goal.