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- Subject: Executive Summary
- Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 16:39:07 -0600 (MDT)
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_
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# 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
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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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