19990127: COMET Case 014, Midwest Cold Season Synoptic Storm, now available

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• Subject: 19990127: COMET Case 014, Midwest Cold Season Synoptic Storm, now available
• From: "Ethan R. Davis" <edavis@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 16:33:32 -0700 (MST)

We are pleased to announce the release of our first contributed COMET
case study.  Case study 014, Midwest Cold Season Synoptic Storm, was
developed by Lynn McMurdie, U of Washington.  It covers a storm, 17-19
October 1996, that is an example of "classical" cyclone development
with some structure similar to the Norwegian conceptual model of storm
development.  Case 014 is now available for searching, browsing, and
ordering for FTP download through the CODIAC WWW system.

Case 014 was built to provide an example of the classic structures in
many synoptic systems, and is especially useful for teaching these
concepts to beginning-level students.  Case 014 includes GOES-8 and -9
satellite imagery; NOWRAD composite radar imagery from WSI; surface
and upper air observations; NCEP model data; and textual products from
the NWS Family Of Services (FOS).  Additional data was added by COMET
to augment the satellite, radar and text product availability for this
case through CODIAC.  For a detailed description of case study 014 as
well as a lab exercise and other training support documentation, see

    http://www.comet.ucar.edu/resources/cases/c14_17oct96/

To order case study 014 data, go to

    http://www.joss.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/codiac/projs?COMET_CASE_014

SEARCH, BROWSE, AND FTP ACCESS

All of the individual datasets that are part of case 014 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.  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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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