Executive Summary
COMET Case Study Data on the WWW
September 2002
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 five month period from 1 May 2002 to 30 September 2002.
- The COMET Case Study project has completed its funding cycle from the NWS. The UPC is investigating alternative sources of funding in hopes of continuing this service to the community.
- A change in delivery media has occurred during this time frame. Addressing the needs and wishes of the user community the COMET Case Studies are now available solely on CD's and the 8mm tapes have been eliminated. This will allow greater ease of use for most users.
- Cases ordered rose from 23 to 82 (comparing to the same time frame last year).
- Data orders drop from 454 to 138 (comparing to the same time frame last year). A possible reason for this downturn in Data Orders, could be the ease of access to the data via CD's.
- Case 042 "Kansas Winter Storm" is the first case to be created solely by Unidata, we hope to continue to produce case studies in the future. We will continue to collaborate with COMET and combine efforts and resources as funding permits, but will continue to look towards our user community for input regarding exercises and curriculum development for the cases we develop at the UPC.
- Two new cases have been added to the library, and forty two (42) case studies are now available . All are available for online search, browse, and FTP download.
- The first UPC case study was generated and delivered to the user community on CD. This case has been well recieved and orders for the CD continue to come in.
- All case studies are now available for distribution via CD.
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.
- Continued access to educational material derived from university use of case studies.
This continues to grow and become an increasingly valuable resource for education, research, and training.
Our case study usage statistics (subscribers to the
casestudies e-mail list, CDs 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.
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Development of more case studies at the UPC continues, giving us more
case studies to load into the CODIAC system.
- The UPC is now beginning to create more case studies from
the short-term motherlode (machine at NCAR/Mesa) archive after successfully releasing of Case042: Kansas Winter Storm.
- The next UPC case study to be released will be the Colorado Fire Weather/Kansas Severe Weather that examines pyro-cumulus cloud development and their contribution to tornado producing severe weather.
- We continue our efforts to make the case studies easier to access and used
by the 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 community, we will continue to publish papers on this project. The next conferences to be attended are the AGU in San Francisco December 2002, and the AMS in Long Beach, January 2003.
- 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, and netCDF.
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
