19980727: COMET Case 011, Ft Collins Flood, now available

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• Subject: 19980727: COMET Case 011, Ft Collins Flood, now available
• From: "Ethan R. Davis" <edavis@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 11:48:13 -0600 (MDT)

We are pleased to announce the release of COMET case study 011, a case
study covering the Fort Collins, CO flood event which occurred 28-29
July 1997.  Backbuilding echoes increased the duration of rainfall.
This, in addition to very intense rainfall, combined with urban runoff
complexities and resulted in an extreme hydrologic response.  Case 011
is now available for searching, browsing, and ordering for FTP
download through the CODIAC WWW system.

Case 011 is being released on the one year anniversary of the event
that it covers.  The case was presented during the COMET Hydromet 98-1
course and was developed in collaboration with Matt Kelsch, NOAA/FSL.
Case 011 includes GOES-8 and GOES-9 satellite imagery; radar data from
Denver, CO and Cheyenne, WY; as well as NOWRAD composite radar imagery
from WSI; surface and upper air observations; NCEP model data; and
textual weather reports from the NWS Family Of Services (FOS).

For a detailed description of case study 011 as well as a lab exercise
and other training support documentation, see

    http://www.comet.ucar.edu/resources/cases/c11_28jul97/

To order case study 011 data, go to

    http://www.joss.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/codiac/projs?COMET_CASE_011

SEARCH, BROWSE, AND FTP ACCESS

All of the individual datasets that are part of case 011 are available
through the CODIAC system for searching, browsing, and ordering
subsets of the data for delivery via FTP.  Several datasets, in
particular, those archived as GIF images or GEMPAK surface files, can
be graphically browsed through the CODIAC web interface.

8MM TAPE STILL AVAILABLE

If you want all or most of the data for this case study, we are still
making an 8mm tape containing the entire case study available.  The
tape can also be ordered through the CODIAC system.  For details on
how to order a tape, see the web page:

    http://www.joss.ucar.edu/cometCases/faq.html#howGetTape

E-MAIL LIST

An e-mail list, casestudies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, is available for people
interested in case study data.  The case studies list has been created
to enable the community of case study users to communicate with each
other about the case studies.  New capabilities and new case studies
will be announced on the Case Studies mail list.  For information on
how to subscribe, go to:

    http://www.joss.ucar.edu/cometCases/mailList.html

QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS

If you have any questions or comments about this or other COMET case
studies or about how to access the data through CODIAC, please send
e-mail to 

    support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

We are always interested in suggestions on how to make the case study
data easier to access and more useful for the users.  If you have any
suggestions or comments, including what cases you would like to see
available, again, please send e-mail to support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

For general information about this project, visit our home page:

    http://www.joss.ucar.edu/cometCases/


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Liz Page                                Ethan Davis
Case Study Meteorologist                Software Engineer/User Support
NWS/OM UCAR/COMET                       UCAR/Unidata
epage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx                    edavis@xxxxxxxx