Executive Summary
COMET Case Study Data on the WWW
November 2000
Jeff Weber --
jweber@unidata.ucar.edu,
Liz Page --
epage@comet.ucar.edu,
Dolores Kiessling --
rock@comet.ucar.edu,
Linda Miller --
lmiller@unidata.ucar.edu,
- This Executive Summary covers the six month period from 1 May 2000 to 31 October 2000.
- The COMET Case Study Library has experienced normal growth over this period
Subscribtion to the e-mail list has increased from 97 to 101 entries
- Cases ordered dropped from 40 to 12. We interpret this as a seasonal drop.
- This report includes the summer months when there is less activity at universities (there were 14 cases ordered during the same time frame last year ).
- Data orders rose from 225 to 296 for this same time period (May 1 -> October 31)
- Volume of data almost doubled to 6844MB from 3540 MB from May 1, 1999 -> October 31, 1999.
- Twenty Nine (29) case studies are now available. All are
available for online search, browse, and FTP download.
Case 30 (Null Event: Eastern Colorado Snowstorm), will be released in the next few days.
- The last eleven cases have been made available in AWIPS compatible netCDF format
- We continue adding ACARS data to the case studies, and are looking into the possibility of including additional model ouputs into our casestudies.
In the six 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
Community Building
- Unidata held a workshop June 19-22, 2000 discussing pedagogical issues.
The COMET Case study Library was highlighted and implemented to display new pedagogy involving atmospheric data.
- This workshop has helped build exercises associated with the COMET Case Study Library.
- For example, Case 23 was highlighted by Lynn McMurdie from the University of Washington.
- Many of the recent cases were suggested by NWS field personnel:
- Case 29 by Gene Petrescu, SOO, Glasgow, MT
- Case 27 by Felix Navejar, SOO, Lake Charles, LA
- Case 26 by Don Moore, Lead Forecaster, Spokane, WA
- Elizabeth Page presented a paper, co-authored with Jeff Weber, Dolores Kiessling,
to the National Weather Association for the conference in October 2000, titled "Significant Weather Events in the NWS/COMET Case
Study Library".
- Elizabeth Page submitted an abstract titled "Application of the NWS/COMET Case Study Library to Development of Web-based Training" (co-authored with Jeff Weber, Patrick O'Reilly and Dolores Kiessling)
for a paper to be presented at the 2001 AMS IIPS session in Albuquerque.
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.
Statistics and current plots of web hits , data downloaded, and the "new" data ordered 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 31: Null event -- Central Plains Severe Weather (18 April 2000)
- Case 32: Null event -- East Coast Derecheo (9 August 2000)
- Case 33: Isolated Severe Thunderstorms over Missouri(21 May 2000)
- Case 34: New Jersey Flood: Terrain-locked Convection (12 August 2000)
- Case 35: San Antonio Flood (17 October 1998)
- Case 36: Southern California Severe Weather(2 September 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 (i.e. ACARS decoders).
In our continuing efforts to expand the community, we will continue to give presentations
and publish papers on this project. The next conferences to be attended are the AGU in San Francisco December 2000, and the AMS in Albuquerque January 2001.
We are tracking the data format issues arising from the NWS
modernization efforts. We have implemented AWIPS compatible
netCDF format so that all 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
Jeff Weber
and Ethan Davis
Questions or comments can be sent to
<support@unidata.ucar.edu>.
Last modified: Sat Nov 25 13:33:33 MST 2000
