Executive Summary
COMET Case Study Data on the WWW
October 2001
Jeff Weber --
jweber@unidata.ucar.edu,
Yuan Ho --
yuanho@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 2001 to 31 October 2001.
- The COMET Case Study Library has experienced normal growth over this period.
- Subscription to the e-mail list has increased from to 118 to 150 entries.
- Cases ordered rose from 12 to 23 (comparing to the same time frame last year).
- This report includes the months when there is less activity at universities.
- Data orders rose from 296 to 454 (comparing to the same time frame last year).
- Volume of data downloaded slightly increased, from 6,844MB to 7,613MB (comparing to the same time frame last year).
- Thirty eight (38) case studies are now available . All are available for online search, browse, and FTP download.
Case 37 (Tropical Storm Allison 05-19 June, 2001), will be released in the next few weeks.
- The last twenty cases have been made available in AWIPS compatible netCDF format.
- We continue adding ACARS data to the case studies, and are looking into including the outputs of additional models 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
- The increase in data acquistion by the university community shows that our goal to bring operationally significant events into the
academic environment is being accomplished.
- Jeff Weber will attend the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco in December, where demonstrations of the COMET Case Study Library will be performed at the UOP/UCAR booth.
Jeff Weber will present a paper titled "The COMET Case Study Library as a resource for education, research and training" at the 2002 AMS IIPS/Internet Applications for
Education and Research session in Orlando.
Elizabeth Page will present a paper regarding AWIPS and displaced real time visualization at the 2002 AMS IIPS session in Orlando.
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. The next case to be released will be:
- Case 37: Tropical Storm Allison (5-19 June 2001)
- T.S. Allison covers a longer time frame than any previously released casestudy, and will offer 3 localizations for AWIPS users. The size of this case will be in excess of 10 GB, and will be made available in 3 different time segments so the user will not be obligated to burden there discs with unwanted data.
- Future cases added to the library will begin to have more information included with them. This will be in the form of exercises, advice from experts on the phenomena, enhanced graphics for identifying features, and other helpful information. This will hopefully enrich the casestudy for the user making it more valuable and useful.
See the
Case Study Status page
We 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 publish papers on this project. The next conferences to be attended are the AGU in San Francisco December 2001, and the AMS in Orlando January 2002.
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.
Yuan Ho has been added to the Unidata staff and will be working on the casestudy project
on a part-time basis. Jeff Weber is expanding his expertise to include Unidata's IDD/LDM project, but will continue working on the casestudy effort as well.
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 Yuan Ho
Questions or comments can be sent to
<support@unidata.ucar.edu>.
Last modified: Thur Nov 29 13:33:33 MST 2001
