Executive Summary
COMET Case Study Data on the WWW

April 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

Eighteen 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

Upper Midwest Severe Weather, COMET Case 018, May 30- June 1, 1998, was announced to users and is available with full online access through the CODIAC system
Desert Southwest Severe Weather, COMET Case 017, 7-8 August 1997, was announced to users and is available with full online access through the CODIAC system.
Moberly, Missouri Tornado, COMET Case 016, 4 July 1995, was announced to users and is available with full online access through the CODIAC system.

Community Building

Elizabeth Page presented information on the COMET Case Study Library at the Central Region Sub-regional SOO meeting held in Kansas City on Feb. 21-25. This meeting included the SOOs from the Dodge City, Wichita, and Topeka offices in Kansas; Springfield, St. Louis, and Pleasant Hill offices in Missouri; and Omaha, NE. The Development and Operations Hydrologist (DOH) from the Missouri Basin RFC also attended.
Elizabeth Page is continuing to work with the NCDC to establish an archive of NOAAPORT data to support case study development in the AWIPS era.
The AMS Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology will hold a special session which will be co-chaired by Unidata's Linda Miller.We invite and encourage all Unidata and university collaborators to submit papers for the AMS-IIPS Special Session.

Our case study usage statistics (subscribers to the casestudies e-mail list, tape requests, data downloads, and web hits) continue to increase. For details on all the current usage statistics, see the Detailed Statistics page.

Past statistics and current plots of web hits and data downloaded 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 19: OK City F5 Tornado (May 3, 1999)
Case 20: Pennsylvania Tornado (June 2, 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 and Jeff Weber
Questions or comments can be sent to <support@unidata.ucar.edu>.

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

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Executive Summary COMET Case Study Data on the WWW