19980826: COMET Case 012, Gravity Waves, now available

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• Subject: 19980826: COMET Case 012, Gravity Waves, now available
• From: "Ethan R. Davis" <edavis@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 11:16:29 -0600 (MDT)

We are pleased to announce the release of COMET case study 012,
Gravity Waves, a case study covering the tornadic outbreak on Palm
Sunday (27 March 1994) in Alabama.  Gravity waves were triggered with
deep convection that developed in northeastern Texas.  The waves
modulated mesolows that developed along a cold front and acted to
force the severe convection in Alabama.  Case 012 is now available for
searching, browsing, and ordering for FTP download through the CODIAC
WWW system. 

Case 012 was presented during the COMAP-97 (COMET Mesoscale Analysis
and Prediction) course and was developed in collaboration with
Professor Steve Koch of North Carolina State University.  Case 012
includes GOES-7 satellite imagery; radar data from Maxwell AFB, AL;
surface and upper air observations; NCEP model data; MASS mesoscale
model data; and textual products from the NWS Family Of Services
(FOS).  For a detailed description of case study 012 as well as a lab
exercise and other training support documentation, see

    http://www.comet.ucar.edu/resources/cases/c12_27mar94/

To order case study 012 data, go to

    http://www.joss.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/codiac/projs?COMET_CASE_012

SEARCH, BROWSE, AND FTP ACCESS

All of the individual datasets that are part of case 012 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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Ethan Davis                             Liz Page
User Support/Software Engineer          Case Study Meteorologist
UCAR/Unidata                            NWS/OM UCAR/COMET
edavis@xxxxxxxx                         epage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx