Currently Available Case Studies

• COMET Case Study 001, "The Storm of the Century", 11-13 March 1993;
• COMET Case Study 002, Midwest Snow Event, 6 December 1995;
• COMET Case Study 003, Hurricane Erin, 1-3 August 1995;
• COMET Case Study 004, Bow Echo, 5 May 1996.
• COMET Case Study 005, Lake Effect Snow, 4-5 January 1995.
• COMET Case Study 006, Chicago Flood/Oakfield F5 Tornado, 17-19 July 1996.
• COMET Case Study 007, High Plains Snow, 13-14 March 1996.
• COMET Case Study 008, California Flood, 31 December 1996 - 3 January 1997.
• COMET Case Study 009, Severe Icing Event, 6 March 1996.
• COMET Case Study 010, Southeast US Severe Weather, 26-27 May 1997.
• COMET Case Study 011, Ft Collins Flood, 28-29 July 1997.
• COMET Case Study 012, Gravity Waves, 27-28 March 1994.
• COMET Case Study 013, Southern California Floods and Florida Tornadoes, 22-24 February 1998.
• COMET Case Study 014, Midwest Cold Season Synoptic Storm, 17-18 October 1996 (Contributed by Lynn McMurdie, U of Washington).
• COMET Case Study 015, Southeast US Cyclogenesis, 27-30 April 1998
• COMET Case Study 016, Moberly, Missouri Tornado, 4 July 1995
• COMET Case Study 017, Desert Southwest Severe Weather, 7-8 August 1997
• COMET Case Study 018, Upper Midwest Severe Weather, 30 May - 01 June 1998
• COMET Case Study 019, Oklahoma City Tornado, 03 May 1999
• COMET Case Study 020, Hurricane Floyd, 14-18 September 1999
• COMET Case Study 021, Wichita, Kansas Halloween Flood, 30 October-1 November 1998
• COMET Case Study 022, Northeast US Severe Weather, 02-03 June 1998
• COMET Case Study 023, Winter Severe Weather, 08-11 November 1998
• COMET Case Study 024, Explosive East Coast Cyclogenesis, 19-26 January 2000
• COMET Case Study 025, Salt Lake City Tornado/Long Island Flash Flood, 11-12 August 1999
• COMET Case Study 026, Pacific Northwest Winter Storm, 23-26 November 1999
• COMET Case Study 027, Southern Louisiana Tornados, 01-02 January 1999
• COMET Case Study 028, Fort Worth, Texas Tornados, 28-29 March 2000
• COMET Case Study 029, Montana Fire Weather-Dry Cold Front, 30-31 October-01 November 01 1999
• COMET Case Study 030, Null Event: Eastern Colorado Snowstorm 19-21 March, 2000
• COMET Case Study 031, Null Event: Central Plains Severe Weather 18-19 April, 2000
• COMET Case Study 032, Buffalo Lake Effect Snowstorm 19-21 November, 2000
• COMET Case Study 033, Missouri Isolated Severe Weather 20-22 May, 2000
• COMET Case Study 034, New Jersey Flood: Terrain-Locked Convection 11-13 August, 2000
• COMET Case Study 035, San Antonio Flood 16-19 October, 1998
• COMET Case Study 036, Seattle Snowstorm 15-17 February, 2001
• COMET Case Study 037, Tropical Storm Allison 05-06 June, 2001
• COMET Case Study 038, Birmingham Tornado 07-09 April, 1998
• COMET Case Study 039, Iowa Bow Echo 29-30 June, 1998
• COMET Case Study 040, Kansas City Flood 4-5 October, 1998
• COMET Case Study 041, Southern California Severe Weather 2-3 September, 1998
• COMET Case Study 042, Kansas Winter Storm 28-30 January, 2002
• COMET Case Study 043, Colorado Fire/Kansas Severe Weather 10-13 June, 2002
• COMET Case Study 044, Fall 2002 Tornado Outbreak 10-11 November, 2002

Spatial Distribution of Case Studies

How to Access the Data

The links above will take you to a page describing the case study you select. Select the "Datasets" link to see a list of all the datasets available for this project. The complete CD is generally last in the subsequent list.

If you follow the "Datasets" link, you can browse information on each dataset and order the data you are interested in. For some of the datasets, you can also plot the data.

Other Data on CODIAC

Besides the case study data, CODIAC also contains data from a varitey of field projects and research programs (e.g., CaPE, GCIP, STORM-FEST, TOGA COARE, and VORTEX). CODIAC provides two methods for searching through all the data contained in CODIAC. First, all the case studies, field projects, and research programs can be viewed as a list of titles. Second, all datasets in CODIAC can be searched by space, time, keywords, and data types.