What's New with COMET Case Studies

• To: casestudies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
• Subject: What's New with COMET Case Studies
• From: "Ethan R. Davis" <edavis@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 17:24:38 -0700 (MST)

Here's what's new in "Case Study World":
 
- MISSING DATA IN CASE 005 NOW AVAILABLE
- ISENTROPIC ANALYSIS DATA NOW AVAILABLE FOR CASE 001
- COMET CASE STUDY SUMMARY WEB PAGES CONTINUE TO EVOLVE
- COMET RESTRUCTURING:  MORE TELECONFERENCING AND WEB BASED TRAINING
- UPCOMING CASE STUDIES
- SAMPLE GIF IMAGERY FOR ALL CASE STUDIES NOW ON CODIAC
- STATUS OF LOADING CASE 005 INTO CODIAC


MISSING DATA IN CASE 005 NOW AVAILABLE

If you've been looking at COMET Case #005 (5jan95), you may have
noticed some missing surface, upperair, and profiler data for 5 and 6
January 1995.  Data for 5 Jan 1995 is now available through CODIAC
(http://www.joss.ucar.edu/codiac/).  To get this data through CODIAC,
go to the individual dataset pages and download the data files via
FTP.  A new Case 005 8mm tape, including these changes, will be
available soon.  An announcement will be sent out at that time.

ISENTROPIC ANALYSIS DATA NOW AVAILABLE FOR CASE 001

Dr Steve Koch, North Carolina State University, has contributed a set
of isentropic analysis data in GEMPAK format for COMET case #001
(11-14mar93).  This data will be available through CODIAC in the near
future.  An announcement will be sent out when it is available.  If
you have a special need for this data now, send email to Julie at
adolphson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

COMET CASE STUDY SUMMARY WEB PAGES CONTINUE TO EVOLVE

The COMET case study summaries will be evolving over time.  New
features will include streamlining the discussions of different data
types to make choosing what you would like to review much more user
friendly.  I'm starting with case #002 (06dec95).  Comments on how to
further improve the case descriptions (and even contributed
summaries/exercises) are always welcome.

COMET RESTRUCTURING:  MORE TELECONFERENCING AND WEB BASED TRAINING

COMET is undergoing a major restructuring as a result of the recent
budget situation.  The good news about this is that COMET will be
embarking upon new and exciting training techniques, like video
teleconferencing, much more WEB training, and CD-ROMs that are much
more focused on smaller topics.  Stayed tuned for more information
about this soon.

UPCOMING CASE STUDIES

The next case to be released will be 14-15 March 1996, a high plains
snow event.  COMET has used the case in the classroom for Satellite
Meteorology training.  Right after that case is released, we'll
release 8-9 March 1995, California flood case; it is used in COMET's
Hyrdomet course.

If you have any suggestions for future case studies, send an e-mail
with your ideas to casestudies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  Please consider
helping to get the case ready for distribution by providing a written
summary of the case you are proposing.

SAMPLE GIF IMAGERY FOR ALL CASE STUDIES NOW ON CODIAC

Sample GIF imagery for each case study has been added to the CODIAC
system.  Each of the COMET Case Studies now has at least two datasets
of sample imagery.  For most cases, one dataset is radar imagery and
the second dataset is satellite imagery.  For more info, see the "20
February 1997" entry on my "What's New" page:

http://www.joss.ucar.edu/cometCases/whatsNew.html

STATUS OF LOADING CASE 005 INTO CODIAC

The loading of COMET Case 005 individual datasets into the CODIAC
system is progressing (sometimes a bit slowly).  Several technical
problems have delayed our efforts, but if no surprises come up, I hope
to have case 005 completed by 14 March 1997.

On a brighter note, most of the data is already in CODIAC as
individual datasets.  The only data that remains to be loaded is the
NCEP model data and the NTRANS metafiles created from the model data.

COMET Case Study 006 (Chicago Flood/Oakfield Tornado) will be the next
case to be loaded into CODIAC as individual datasets.  This process
should (can? :-) only get faster.

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Julie L. Adolphson                  Ethan R. Davis
NWS/OM UCAR/COMET                   UCAR Unidata Program Center

303-497-8351                        (303) 497-8155
adolphson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx            edavis@xxxxxxxx