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Executive Summary



Hi LeRoy and Greg, 

I think you will find that the COMET Case Study effort
has gained some momentum during this period. Due largely, I believe, 
in part to Hurricane Floyd's and East Coast Explosive Cyclogenesis's
high demand. Attached is a text version, yet I encourage you to view with
a browser for greater ease of display.

URL: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/casestudies/execSummary/200004/

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks, 

-Jeff
__________
Jeff Weber
Unidata/NWS-COMET Case Study Library
University Corp for Atmospheric Research

address@hidden
PH:303-497-8676   
URL--http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/jweber
________________________________________________
LeRoy and Greg,


Below is the  November 1999 - April 2000 Executive Summary
for the COMET Case Studies on the WWW project.  The Executive Summary
is also available in a much friendlier format on the web at:


    http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/casestudies/execSummary/200004/


If you have any questions, please feel free to contact any of us.

Thanks,

Jeff Weber,        Unidata,   (303) 497-8676
Liz Page,          NWS-COMET, (303) 497-8470
Dolores Kiessling, COMET,     (303) 497-8364
Linda Miller,      Unidata,   (303) 497-8646


Status
------
    This Executive Summary covers the six month period from October 1999 to May 
2000. 
    The COMET Case Study Library has enjoyed large growth over this period 
    Subscribtion to the e-mail list has increased 25% from 77 to 97 entries 
    Cases ordered rose from 14 to 40 
    Data orders rose from 225 to 462 
    Volume of data nearly tripled from 3540 MB to 9020 MB 
    Twenty-five case studies are now available. All are available for online 
search, browse, 
    and FTP download. 

*********************
    The last six cases have been made available in netCDF format.       
        
    We have begun adding ACARS data to the case studies, with case 25 (Salt 
Lake City Tornado)
    being the first case to implement ACARS data. ACARS data is made available 
in its native format (netCDF)
    and is also available, decoded on-the-fly, in GEMPAK. 


    The amount of data downloaded and the number of web hits have more than 
doubled
    over the last six months.  

    With the East Coast Explosive Cyclogenesis, Hurricane Floyd, and Oklahoma 
City Tornado cases being offered in
    both a timely manner and in AWIPS compatible format we expected more 
activity at our sites.

Accomplishments Since the Last Summary
--------------------------------------

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

    Salt Lake City Tornado/Long Island Flash Flood, COMET Case 025, Aug 11-12, 
1999, was announced to users and is available 
    with full online access through the CODIAC system. 
    This case was the first to include ACARS data.
    This case is also available in netCDF AWIPS compatible format 
    
    Explosive East Coast Cyclogenesis, COMET Case 024, 19-26 Jan 2000, was 
announced to users and is available 
    with full online access through the CODIAC system. 
    This is the first case that the netCDF format was made available via the 
CODIAC system. 
    ACARS data is being assembled for this case with release in two weeks.

    Winter Severe Weather, COMET Case 023, Nov 08-11, 1998, was announced to 
users and is available 
    with full online access through the CODIAC system. 
    This case is also available in netCDF AWIPS compatible format 
    
    Northeast Severe Weather, COMET Case 022, 02-03 June 1998, was announced to 
users and is available 
    with full online access through the CODIAC system. 
    This is the first case that the netCDF format was made available via the 
CODIAC system. 
    
    Wichita, Kansas Halloween Flood, COMET Case 021, 30 October-November 1 
1998, was announced to users 
    and is available with full online access through the CODIAC system.

***Community Building

    Unidata will be holding a workshop June 19-22 discussing pedagogical 
issues. 
    The COMET Case study Library will be highlighted and implemented to display 
new pedagogy involving atmospheric data.
    Artifacts of this workshop will be more exercises associated with the COMET 
Case Study Library. 

    Elizabeth Page submitted an abstract, co-authored with Jeff Weber, Dolores 
Kiessling, and Patrick O'Reilly,
    to the National Weather Association for conference in October 2000 , titled 
"Significant Weather Events in the NWS/COMET Case 
    Study Library". 

    Jeff Weber presented a paper co-authored with Elizabeth Page and Dolores 
Kiessling: 
    "COMET Case Study Library Into the New Millenium" at the AMS IIPS Unidata 
special session in Long Beach. 
    
    Elizabeth Page and Unidata are continuing to work with the NCDC to 
establish an archive 
    of NOAAPORT data to support case study development in the AWIPS era. 

***Usage

   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.

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/casestudies/execSummary/200004/stats.html
 

   Past statistics and current plots of web hits, data downloaded, and data 
ordered are 
   also available on the Case Studies Usage Statistics Page. 

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/casestudies/usage/

***Future

Development of more case studies continues, giving us more case studies to load 
into the 
CODIAC system. Future cases include: 
    
    Case 26: Pacific Northwest Winter Storm (November 23-26, 1999) 
    Case 27: Southern Louisiana Tornados (January 1-2, 1999) 

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. 
Additionally, new datasets and formats will continue to be addressed and 
incorporated as needed.

In our continuing efforts to expand the user community, we will continue to 
give presentations 
and publish papers on this project. The next conference to be attended is the 
NWA

We are tracking the data format issues arising from the NWS modernization 
efforts. We have 
implemented AWIPS compatible netCDF format so that future cases
can be downloaded in raw data formats, GEMPAK formats, or AWIPS formats. 



Executive Summary Statistics

November/December/January
February/March/April

05/01/00

By Jeff Weber
**************************
# TABLE FROM E-MAIL LIST #

#  48 .edu
#  22 .noaa
#  16 .other
#   6 .international 
#   3 .mil
#   2 .nasa
---------------------------
#  97 subscribers + 9 .ucar
---------------------------
***************************
 Detailed E-mail contacts from case orders

-------------------------------------------
# NOVEMBER #  /////////////////////////////
-------------------------------------------
Mohan Ramamurthy
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
address@hidden

Nov  1                  41.001          mohanAAAXeqSv_

------------------------------
Tim Doggett
Texas Tech University
address@hidden

Nov  1                  41.001          tim.dAAAYVH.s_
------------------------------
Larry Oolman
Univ. of Wyoming, Dept. of Atmospheric Science
address@hidden

Nov  2                  9.12             ldoolAAA0QWTO2
Nov  2                  9.14             ldoolAAA0btaO6
Nov  2                  9.15             ldoolAAA0wbpOE
Nov  2                  23.001           ldoolAAA.Swob_
Nov  2                  26.001           ldoolAAAzZsWY_
Nov  2                  30.043           ldoolAAA0nt9SP
Nov  2                  31.001           ldoolAAAtLSiw_       
Nov  2                  32.001           ldoolAAA0PDvZD
Nov  2                  33.001           ldoolAAAUhBqk_
Nov  2                  34.001           ldoolAAA0Bopz8
Nov  2                  36.185           ldoolAAAx3dOL_
Nov  2                  39.001           ldoolAAAL6De1_
Nov  2                  41.001           ldoolAAA0IDv59
--------------------------------------------------------
# DECEMBER #  //////////////////////////////////////////
--------------------------------------------------------
David Gaede
NOAA/National Weather Service
address@hidden

Dec 13                  42.001          DavidAAA0064tM
------------------------------
Steve Hunter
NWS
address@hidden

Dec 15                  42.050          SteveAAAuSdQS_
------------------------------
James T. Moore
Saint Louis University
address@hidden

Dec 20                  39.001          mooreAAA0iIVCP
Dec 20                  36.185          mooreAAA0vpRq_

-------------------------------------------------------
# JANUARY #  //////////////////////////////////////////
-------------------------------------------------------

John Margraf
National Weather Service
address@hidden

Jan  6                  43.001          john.AAA0iTc5d
------------------------------
James T. Moore
Saint Louis University
address@hidden

Jan 27                  42.001          mooreAAAfulf2_

-------------------------------------------------------
# FEBRUARY #  /////////////////////////////////////////
-------------------------------------------------------
Dr. Tim Doggett
Texas Tech Atmospheric Science Group
address@hidden

Feb  2                  9.5             tim.dAAA0.Cw4e
-----------------------------
Jonathan Blaes
NOAA/NWS/ WFO Raleigh NC
address@hidden

Feb  7                  41.001          jonatAAA0cszd_
------------------------------
Mohan Ramamurthy
University of Illinois
address@hidden

Feb 17                  44.001          mohanAAA07lsxh
------------------------------
James T. Moore
Saint Louis University
address@hidden

Feb 17                  44.001          mooreAAA0PFdDi

--------------------------------------------------------
# MARCH #  /////////////////////////////////////////////
--------------------------------------------------------
James A. Thurman
North Carolina State University
address@hidden

Mar  6                  41.001          jathuAAAfTOUk_
------------------------------
Camree Sutton
Metropolitan State College of Denver
address@hidden

Mar  8                  39.001          camreAAA0lGiZ1
------------------------------
Dr. Scot C. R. Rafkin
Department of Meteorology, 
San Jose State University
address@hidden

Mar 13                  39.001          rafkiAAA0ypjt2
------------------------------
Chris Vandersip
Florida State University
Dept. of Meteorology
address@hidden

Mar 23                  39.001          cvandAAA0V.DUf
------------------------------
Mohan Ramamurthy
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
address@hidden

Mar 24                  47.001          mohanAAA0bnMKe
------------------------------
Dr. Shing Yoh
Kean University, Dept. of Meteorology
address@hidden

Mar 27                  47.001          yohAAADaoYB_
------------------------------
Ron McTaggart-Cowan
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
McGill University
address@hidden

Mar 27                  47.001          rmctcAAA0AVF9K
------------------------------
Kevin Lux
2408 Perennial Street
address@hidden

Mar 27                  47.001          kmluxAAA09Thk9
------------------------------
Chris Vandersip
Florida State University
Dept. of Meteorology
address@hidden

Mar 27                  47.001          cvandAAA0aHNmZ
------------------------------
james correia
florida state university
address@hidden

Mar 31                  36.185          jcorrAAAsbl0g_

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# APRIL #  ///////////////////////////////////////////
------------------------------------------------------
Tim Doggett
Texas Tech University
address@hidden

Apr 10                  47.001          tim.dAAA0uoVaT
------------------------------
Mike Trexler
NC State University
address@hidden

Apr 11                  41.001          trexAAA02oi5t
------------------------------
David Fitzgerald
Millersville University
address@hidden

Apr 17                  43.001          davidAAAgoyTQ_
------------------------------
Jonathan Blaes
DOC/NOAA NWS WFO Raleigh
address@hidden

Apr 21                  47.001          jonatAAATcZR._
------------------------------
Jeffrey Tongue
NOAA/NWS
address@hidden

Apr 26                  49.001          jeffrAAA0uF3Kl

--------------------------------------------------------
CASES ORDERED
FROM 11/01/99  to  04/30/00
--------------------------------------------------------

Case      .noaa        .edu       .ca     .com
====      =====        ====       ====    ====
001                      1                     
008                      1
009                      1
010                      1
011                      1
012                      1
013                      1
014                      1
015                      1
016                      1
017                      1           
018                      3         
019                      4                  1
020         1            5
021         2            1
022         1            1
023                      2
024         1            5          1
025         1             
          -----        ----       ----     ----
TOTAL       6     +     32    +     1    +    1    =  40


 ---------------------------------------------------------
DATA DOWNLOADED (Mega-bytes "rounded")
FROM 11/01/99  to  04/30/00
---------------------------------------------------------

Case     EDU      NOAA     NASA      MIL    OTHER     TOTAL
====     ===      ====     ====      ===    =====     =====
001      2,162                         5      23      2,190
002                                                       0     
003                                                       0
004                                                       0               
005                                                       0 
006         39                                           39
007        344                                          344                     
 
008          7     391                          3       401      
009                                                       0
010          1                                            1    
011        115                                  5       120
012                                                       0       
013          1       1                                    2
014        483                                  1       484             
015         73                                  1        74  
016         34                                           34
017        556                                          556
018         34                                 49        83
019        494     202                         42       738
020       1234     111                       1345      2690
021                                                       0
022        156                                 33       189
023        100                                 44       144 
024        707      70                        140       917
025                                             1         1

         ----     ----      ----     ---    ----     -----
TOTAL     6540  +  775   +    0    +  5   +  1687 =    9007


***********************************************
        #TABLE FROM SCRIPT OUTPUT#
-----------------------------------------------
# DATA ORDERS                       = 462
# TOTAL MEGA-BYTES ORDERED          = 9020.089
# NUMBER OF UNIQUE DATASETS ORDERED = 232
# NUMBER OF UNIQUE USERS            = 76

***********************************************
        #WEB HIT STATISTICS#
-----------------------------------------------
NOVEMBER////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
WWW hits on COMET Case Study Pages

                 edu -
                  ucar   noaa    gov    mil      edu   ucar   snow    total
                 =====   ====    ===    ===      ===   ====   ====    =====
Project Pages ::   129     29     32     16      347    218      0      674
Dataset Pages ::    64      5      6      3       98     34      0      204
Home Page     ::    40     31     33     11      123     83      0      393

                 edu -                                      total
                  ucar   noaa    gov    mil  other          - ucar
                 =====   ====    ===    ===  =====          ======
                   129     29     32     16    279             456
                    64      5      6      3     97             170
                    40     31     33     11    226             310



DECEMBER/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
WWW hits on COMET Case Study Pages

                 edu -
                  ucar   noaa    gov    mil      edu   ucar   snow    total
                 =====   ====    ===    ===      ===   ====   ====    =====
Project Pages ::    70     36     39      5      104     34      0      429
Dataset Pages ::    34     10     10      0       54     20      0      158
Home Page     ::    40     21     26      7       71     31      1      412

                 edu -                                      total
                  ucar   noaa    gov    mil  other          - ucar
                 =====   ====    ===    ===  =====          ======
                    70     36     39      5    281             395
                    34     10     10      0     94             138
                    40     21     26      7    307             380


JANUARY///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
WWW hits on COMET Case Study Pages

                 edu -
                  ucar   noaa    gov    mil      edu   ucar   snow    total
                 =====   ====    ===    ===      ===   ====   ====    =====
Project Pages ::    87     25     28     19      197    110      0      484
Dataset Pages ::    44     12     12     12       58     14      0      114
Home Page     ::    49     20     26      6      105     56      1      365

                 edu -                                      total
                  ucar   noaa    gov    mil  other          - ucar
                 =====   ====    ===    ===  =====          ======
                    87     25     28     19    240             374
                    44     12     12     12     32             100
                    49     20     26      6    227             308


FEBRUARY////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
WWW hits on COMET Case Study Pages

                 edu -
                  ucar   noaa    gov    mil      edu   ucar   snow    total
                 =====   ====    ===    ===      ===   ====   ====    =====
Project Pages ::    91     20     29     22      212    121      0      476
Dataset Pages ::    60      6      8      8       75     15      0      134
Home Page     ::    61     23     31      4      118     57      0      381

                 edu -                                      total
                  ucar   noaa    gov    mil  other          - ucar
                 =====   ====    ===    ===  =====          ======
                    91     20     29     22    213             355
                    60      6      8      8     43             119
                    61     23     31      4    228             324


MARCH/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
WWW hits on COMET Case Study Pages

                 edu -
                  ucar   noaa    gov    mil      edu   ucar   snow    total
                 =====   ====    ===    ===      ===   ====   ====    =====
Project Pages ::   164     45     47     33      215     51      0      509
Dataset Pages ::    70     20     20     11       85     15      0      179
Home Page     ::    55     23     28     10       92     37      0      351

                 edu -                                      total
                  ucar   noaa    gov    mil  other          - ucar
                 =====   ====    ===    ===  =====          ======
                   164     45     47     33    214             458
                    70     20     20     11     63             164
                    55     23     28     10    221             314

APRIL///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
WWW hits on COMET Case Study Pages

                 edu -
                  ucar   noaa    gov    mil      edu   ucar   snow    total
                 =====   ====    ===    ===      ===   ====   ====    =====
Project Pages ::   297     66     69     58      388     91      7      890
Dataset Pages ::   158     23     23     24      173     15      3      308
Home Page     ::    87     23     29     13      119     32      0      456

                 edu -                                      total
                  ucar   noaa    gov    mil  other          - ucar
                 =====   ====    ===    ===  =====          ======
                   297     66     69     58    368             792
                   158     23     23     24     85             290
                    87     23     29     13    295             424


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