Sponsors:

Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA)
National Weather Service (NWS)
Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (NAVMETOCCOM)

Principal Science Advisors:

Dr. Morris Weisman--National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)/Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division (MMM)
Ron Przybylinski--NWS

Project Leader/Instructional Designer:

Patrick Parrish--University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)/Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training (COMET)

COMET Staff Meteorologist:

Wendy Schreiber-Abshire--UCAR/COMET

COMET Program Director:

Dr. Timothy Spangler--UCAR/COMET

COMET Assistant Director for Education and Training:

Dr. Joseph Lamos--UCAR/COMET

COMET Assistant Director for Information Technologies:

Susan Jesuroga--UCAR/COMET

COMET Media Services Group Head

Julee Syverson--UCAR/COMET

COMET Meteorological Resources Group Head:

Dr. Greg Byrd--UCAR/COMET

Data Provided by:

National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
NCAR/MMM
NCAR/Scientific Computing Division (SCD)
NOAA NWS
NWS Operational Support Facility (OSF)
Don Burgess
Joe Chrisman
John Ferree
Greg Hanson
Liz Quoetone
WSI Corporation

Data Collection:

Dolores Kiessling--UCAR/COMET
Ron Przybylinski--NWS
Wendy Schreiber-Abshire--UCAR/COMET
Dr. Morris Weisman--NCAR/MMM

Additional Assistance in Data Collection:

Steve Amburn--NWS Tulsa
Dave Andra--NWS Norman
David Billingsly--NWS Boise
John Eise--NWS Sullivan
Ed Fenelon--NWS Marquette
Doug Green--NWS Phoenix
Bill Hibbard--Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC), University of Wisconsin-Madison
Vic Jensen--NWS Bismark
Brian Klimowski--NWS Rapid City
John Lewis--NWS Little Rock
Rich Naistat--NWS Chassen
Brian Paul--SSEC, University of Wisconsin-Madison
George Phillips--NWS Topeka
Dan Purcell--NWS OSF/Operations Training Branch (OTB)
Bill Read--NWS Houston
Tim Scheitlin--NCAR/SCD
Gary Schmocker--NWS St. Louis
Paul Sisson--NWS Burlington
Warren Snyder--NWS Albany
Pat Spoden--NWS Paducah
Kurt Swartz--New York State Dept. of Environmental Conservation
Dick Wagenmaker--NWS White Lake
Jeff Waldstreicher--NWS Binghamton
Ray Wolf NWS--NWS Davenport
Steve Zubrick--NWS Sterling

NWS Beta Testing Offices:

Aberdeen, South Dakota
Eureka, California
Gray, Maine
Lake Charles, Louisiana
Phoenix, Arizona
Rapid City, South Dakota
Wakefield, Virginia

Additional Source Material:

Fujita, T.T., 1978: Manual of downburst identification for project nimrod. Dept. of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago. SMRP Research Paper No. 156, pg. 33, 34, and 36.

Smith, Brian E.--Photographer, NWS

Weisman, M.L., 1990: The genesis of bow echoes: A rear-inflow induced meso-convective structure. PSU, NCAR. Cooperative Thesis No. 125, pg. 13.

American Meteorological Society Sources

Burgess, D.W., and E.B. Curran, 1985: The relationship of storm type to environment in Oklahoma on 26 April 1984. Preprints, 14^th Conf. on Severe Local Storms, Indianapolis, IN, Amer. Meteor. Soc., pg. 209.

Bluestein, H.B., and M.H. Jain, 1985: Formation of mesoscale lines of precipitation: Severe squall lines in Oklahoma during the spring. J. Atmos. Sci., 42, pg. 1713, 1722-1723, and 1727.

Bluestein, H.B., G.T. Marx, and M.H. Jain, 1987: Formation of mesoscale lines of precipitation: Nonsevere squall lines in Oklahoma during the spring. Mon. Wea. Rev., 115, pg. 2719, 2723-2724.

Doswell, C., 1980: Synoptic-scale environments associated with High Plains severe thunderstorms. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 61, pg. 1390.

Houze, R.A., Jr., B.F. Smull, and P. Dodge, 1990: Mesoscale organization of springtime rainstorms in Oklahoma. Mon. Wea. Rev., 118, pg. 622, 624, and 625.

Johns, R.H., 1993: Meteorological conditions associated with bow echo development in convective storms. Wea. Forecasting, 8, pg. 296 and 297.

Johns, R.H., 1984: A synoptic climatology of northwest-flow severe weather outbreaks. Part I: Meteorological parameters and synoptic patterns. Mon. Wea. Rev., #, pg. 456.

Johns, R.H., and W.D. Hirt, 1987: Derechos: Widespread convectively induced windstorms. Wea. Forecasting, 2, pg. 32, 35, and 37.

Maddox, R.A., 1980: Mesoscale convective complexes. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 61, pg. 1375.

Menard, R.D., and J.M. Fritsch, 1989: A mesoscale convective complex-generated inertially stable warm core vortex. Mon. Wea. Rev., 117, pg. 1259.

Moller, A.R., C.A. Doswell III, M.P. Foster, and G.R. Woodall, 1994: The operational recognition of supercell thunderstorm environments and storm structures. Wea. Forecasting, 9, pg. 333.

Przybylinski, R.W., and D.M. DeCaire, 1985: Radar signatures associated with the derecho, a type of mesoscale convective system. Preprints, 14th Conf. on Severe Local Storms, Indianapolis, IN, Amer. Meteor. Soc., pg. 229 and 230.

Przybylinski, R.W., and G.K. Schmocker, 1993: The evolution of a widespread convective windstorm event over central and eastern Missouri. Preprints, 13th Conf. on Wea. Analysis and Forecasting, Vienna, VA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., pg. 461.

Skamarock, W.C., M.L. Weisman, and J.B. Klemp, 1994: Three-dimensional evolution of simulated long-lived squall lines. J. Atmos. Sci., 51, pg. 2582.

Multimedia Authoring:

Peter Ciesler--UCAR/COMET
Steve Drake-UCAR/COMET
Patrick Parrish--UCAR/COMET
Carl Whitehurst--UCAR/COMET
Dennis Ward--UCAR/COMET

Computer Graphics/Animation:

Steve Deyo--UCAR/COMET
Heidi Godsil--UCAR/COMET
Julee Syverson--UCAR/COMET

Hardware/Software Support and Programming:

Jim Cowie--NWS/COMET
Steve Drake--UCAR/COMET
Dennis Ward--UCAR/COMET
Carl Whitehurst--UCAR/COMET

Software Testing/Quality Control:

Leeann Fields--UCAR/COMET
Kay Levesque--UCAR/COMET
Michael Smith--UCAR/COMET

Copyright Administration:

Lorrie Fyffe--UCAR/COMET
Hanne Mauriello--UCAR/COMET
Barb Petruzzi--UCAR/COMET
Paul White--UCAR

Scientific Review Panel:

Dr. Greg Byrd--UCAR/COMET
Dr. Richard Johnson--Colorado State University
Dr. Joe Klemp--NCAR/MMM
Dr. Steve Lyons--National Hurricane Center
Dr. John McGinley--NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory

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