19980922: COMET Case 002, datasets available on the web

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COMET Case 002, Datasets Available on the Web

We are pleased to announce that COMET case study 002, Midwest Snow
Event, is now fully loaded into the CODIAC WWW system.  Until now
case study 002 has only been available in its entirety on 8mm
tape.  Now, each dataset in case 002 is available for online
searching, browsing, and ordering for FTP download through the CODIAC
WWW system. 

Case 002 focuses on the mid-west snow event of 6 December 1995. This case
proved to be challenging to forecast since this was not a classic
super-storm system because the dynamics were subtle.

The case includes GOES-7 and GOES-8 satellite imagery; radar data from
Bismarck, ND (BIS), Cleveland, OH (CLE), Des Moines, IA (DMX), Kansas
City, KS (EAX), Goodland, KS (GLD), Chicago, IL (LOT), and Omaha, NE
(OAX); as well as NOWRAD composite radar imagery from WSI; surface and
upper air observations; NCEP model data; and textual products from the
NWS Family Of Services (FOS).  For more information on case study 002,
see 

    http://www.comet.ucar.edu/resources/cases/c2_06dec95/

To order case study 002 data, go to

    http://www.joss.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/codiac/projs?COMET_CASE_002

SEARCH, BROWSE, AND FTP ACCESS

All of the individual datasets that are part of case 002 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

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