The UPC will begin creating case studies on its own from the archive on motherlode.
Case studies 19-40 are now available in netCDF as well as the standard GRIB, GEMPAK, NIDS, and MCIDAS formats.
The future for the netCDF versions continues in the WES (Weather Event Simulator)/DRT(Displaced Real Time) format. This will be used on the NWS AWIPS platforms to provide real-time weather simulations and a more accurate representation of the forecasting scenario in the field.
Associated with the WES/DRT datasets will be a robust set of exercises and tutorials regarding the event. Although most of the university community will not possess the WES/DRT feature, they will benefit from the added detail going into the exercises and curriculum surrounding the case study. We anxiously await the first case delivered in this format
The downside to this new enriched case study scenario, is that COMET will produce only 3 cases per year instead of the 12 we offered last year. To offset this output disparity, COMET and Unidata will generate non WES/DRT cases for use by the entire community and we will continue to ask the community to contribute cases and curriculum material to deepen the coverage of the case study library.
We continue to investigate including NOGAPS model output from FNMOC and GEM model output from Environment Canada into future case studies. The LDM has been installed at Environment Canada and model ouput products have begun flowing via the IDD to UCAR and other Unidata community sites.
In response to the demand for the cases to be delivered via CD, we will begin offering CD's as a media choice in the very near future. COMET has indicated that they are now ready, but we have yet to see them.
