******* Case 006 Announcement ************
New to Case 006, Chicago Flood and Wisconsin Tornadoes (17-19 July 1996),
are two laboratory exercises developed by Jim Moore of St Louis University
and Ron Przybylinski of the NWS in St Louis. These exercises highlight
the important forecasting problems from the case study. To view these
labs, see
http://www.comet.ucar.edu/resources/cases/c6_18jul96/labs.htm
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COMET Case 003, Datasets Available on the Web
We are pleased to announce that COMET case study 003, Hurricane Erin,
is now fully loaded into the CODIAC WWW system. Until now
case study 003 has only been available in its entirety on 8mm
tape. Now, each dataset in case 003 is available for online
searching, browsing, and ordering for FTP download through the CODIAC
WWW system.
Case 003 contains a comprehensive set of data products portraying
Hurricane Erin, which occurred during 1-4 August 1995. This tropical
cyclone struck the East and Gulf of Mexico Coasts of the United States,
causing six deaths and more than $700 million in damages.
The case includes GOES-7 and GOES-8 satellite imagery; radar data from
Melbourne, FL (MLB), Mobile, AL (MOB), and Tampa Bay, FL (TBW);
surface and upper air observations; NCEP model data; and textual
products from the NWS Family Of Services (FOS). For more information
on case study 003, see
http://www.comet.ucar.edu/resources/cases/c3_03aug95/
To order case study 003 data, go to
http://www.joss.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/codiac/projs?COMET_CASE_003
SEARCH, BROWSE, AND FTP ACCESS
All of the individual datasets that are part of case 003 are available
through the CODIAC system for searching, browsing, and ordering
subsets of the data for delivery via FTP. Several datasets, in
particular, those archived as GIF images or GEMPAK surface files, can
be graphically browsed through the CODIAC web interface.
8MM TAPE STILL AVAILABLE
If you want all or most of the data for this case study, we are still
making an 8mm tape containing the entire case study available. The
tape can also be ordered through the CODIAC system. For details on
how to order a tape, see the web page:
http://www.joss.ucar.edu/cometCases/faq.html#howGetTape
E-MAIL LIST
An e-mail list, casestudies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, is available for people
interested in case study data. The case studies list has been created
to enable the community of case study users to communicate with each
other about the case studies. New capabilities and new case studies
will be announced on the Case Studies mail list. For information on
how to subscribe, go to:
http://www.joss.ucar.edu/cometCases/mailList.html
QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS
If you have any questions or comments about this or other COMET case
studies or about how to access the data through CODIAC, please send
e-mail to
support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
We are always interested in suggestions on how to make the case study
data easier to access and more useful for the users. If you have any
suggestions or comments, including what cases you would like to see
available, again, please send e-mail to support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
For general information about this project, visit our home page:
http://www.joss.ucar.edu/cometCases/
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Ethan Davis Liz Page
User Support/Software Engineer Case Study Meteorologist
UCAR/Unidata NWS/OM UCAR/COMET
edavis@xxxxxxxx epage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx