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Accessing COMET Case Studies on the WWW for Research, Training,
and Education
1. Introduction
Teaching meteorology is hard enough without struggling to find
data for examples and exercises. Now easy access to a growing
library of meteorological case study data is available through
the World Wide Web (WWW). The availability of COMET case study
data provides easy access to a comprehensive collection of
data covering a variety of meteorological events. The case
studies are being made available to enhance education,
training, and research activities. Summaries of the events and
sample exercises are available to give users a more detailed
idea of what is available and suggest possible training
topics.
This collaborative project is funded by the National Weather
Service ( NWS) Office
of Meteorology (
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/) in order to foster
cooperation between the NWS Science and Operations Officers
(SOOs) and the university community. The project combines the
efforts of three University Corporation for Atmospheric
Research programs: the Cooperative Program for Operational
Meteorology, Education and Training
( COMET)
[2]; the Joint
Office for Science Support
( JOSS)
[3]; and
Unidata
[4].
The case studies are developed by COMET and made available
through JOSS's CODIAC data management system. Through the
CODIAC WWW interface
(
http://www.joss.ucar.edu/codiac/), users
can search, browse, download, and order case study
data. Unidata is working with the NWS, COMET, and JOSS to
expand the community of case study users and to provide
support and tools for users of the COMET case studies.
This page was Webified by
Ethan Davis
Questions or comments can be sent to
<edavis@ucar.edu>.
Last modified: Mon Dec 22 17:04:36 MST
