19980904: COMET Case 001, datasets available on the web

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• Subject: 19980904: COMET Case 001, datasets available on the web
• From: "Ethan R. Davis" <edavis@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 13:57:56 -0600 (MDT)

We are pleased to announce that COMET case study 001, Storm of the
Century, is now fully loaded into the CODIAC WWW system.  Until now
case study 001 has only been available in its entirety on 8mm
tape.  Now, each dataset in case 001 is available for online
searching, browsing, and ordering for FTP download through the CODIAC
WWW system. 

Case 001 contains data from the well-known "storm of the century",
which devastated the eastern third of the United States in mid-March
1993.  The case includes GOES-7 satellite imagery; radar data from
Melbourne, FL (MLB) and Sterling, VA (LWX); surface and upper air
observations; NCEP model data; contributed data from NCEP's Nested
Gridded Model data on isentropic surfaces; and textual products from
the NWS Family Of Services (FOS).  For a detailed description of case
study 001 as well as a lab exercise and other training support
documentation, see

    http://www.comet.ucar.edu/resources/cases/c1_11mar93/

To order case study 001 data, go to

    http://www.joss.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/codiac/projs?COMET_CASE_001

SEARCH, BROWSE, AND FTP ACCESS

All of the individual datasets that are part of case 001 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