Executive Summary
COMET Case Study Data on the WWW
January 1999
Ethan Davis --
edavis@ucar.edu,
Linda Miller --
lmiller@unidata.ucar.edu,
Jeff Weber --
jweber@unidata.ucar.edu,
Liz Page --
epage@comet.ucar.edu,
Dolores Kiessling --
rock@comet.ucar.edu
- Fifteen case studies are now available. All are
available for online search, browse, and FTP download.
- The amount of data downloaded and the number of web hits
have both increased over the last three months.
In the three months since the last Executive Summary, several
things have been accomplished involving both case study data
and building the community of users.
Data and Infrastructure
- Southeast US Cyclogenesis, COMET Case 015, 27-30 April
1998, was announced to users and is available with full
online access through the CODIAC system.
- Midwest Cold Season Synoptic Storm, COMET Case 014, 17-18
October 1996, was announced to users and is available with
full online access through the CODIAC system. This case was
contributed by Lynn McMurdie, U of Washington.
- Southern California Floods and Florida Tornadoes, COMET
Case 013, 22-24 February 1998, was announced to users and is
available with full online access through the CODIAC system.
- Liz Page and Ethan Davis attended an AWIPS Era Data Archiving
meeting at FSL. The meeting discussed the possibility of
NCDC archiving NOAAPort data for science and training
applications. How this would affect case study efforts was
also discussed.
Community Building
Several Case Study presentations were given at the AMS
Annual Meeting in Dallas this January.
- Liz Page, D.A.Kiessling, E.Davis, "Use of COMET Case
Studies in Operational and University Training", poster
session of the 8th Symposium on Education.
- Linda Miller, E.Davis,
"
COMET Case Study Access and Beyond",
paper in 15th Conference on Interactive Information and
Processing Systems (IIPS).
Our case study usage statistics (subscribers to the
casestudies e-mail list, tape requests, data downloads,
and web hits) continue to increase. See a
current plot of the
web hits statistics.
For details on all the usage statistics, see the
Detailed Statistics page.
Past statistics are also available on the
Case Studies Usage Statistics Page.
Development of more case studies continues, giving us more
case studies to load into the CODIAC system. Future cases
include:
- Case 16: Moberly Missouri Tornado (4 July 1995),
currently being loaded into the CODIAC system.
- Case 17: Desert Southwest Severe Weather (7 August 97)
- Case 18: Upper Midwest Severe Weather (29-31 May 1998)
- Case 19: Wichita Halloween Flood (31 October-2 November 1998)
- Case 20: Winter Severe Weather (9-11 Novemeber 1998)
See the
Case Study Status page
We will continue our efforts to make the case
studies easier to access and use by the user community. These
efforts will include keeping our web site up to date and
helping with enhancements to the CODIAC system.
In our continuing efforts to expand the user community, we
will continue to give presentations and publish papers on this
project.
We are tracking the data format issues arising from the NWS
modernization efforts. We plan to configure the CODIAC system
so that future cases can be downloaded in raw data formats,
GEMPAK formats, or AWIPS formats.
For earlier information, please see the following:
Back to the
COMET Case Studies on the WWW web page.
This page was Webified by
Ethan Davis
Questions or comments can be sent to
<support@unidata.ucar.edu>.
Last modified: Wed Feb 10 11:35:09 MST 1999
