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

Status

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.

Accomplishments Since the Last Summary

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.

Future

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
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Last modified: Wed Feb 10 11:35:09 MST 1999

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