# Presentation: 640427

## NPOESS Userport: 

**Cooperative Program for Meteorology, Education, and Training (COMET)****University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)**

**New Materials for Polar-orbiting Satellite Training **

## What is COMET?

**Mission statement:**The COMET Program strives to be the** **premier resource to support, enhance, convey, and stimulate scientific knowledge about the weather for the benefit of providers, educators, and users of weather information.
- The COMET program was formed by UCAR to serve as a bridge between operational, research, and educational communities in meteorology.

## COMET Program Goals

**Provide high quality residence and distance learning opportunities**
**Expedite the transfer of scientific knowledge**
**Facilitate participation of operational forecasters and research scientists in advancing applied research **
**Build strategic alliances with industry, educational institutions, the federal government, and professional organizations**
**Find innovative ways to enhance the performance of weather forecasters and improve the utilization of weather products**

## COMET Sponsors

- NOAA
- NWS
- NESDIS
- NPOESS/IPO
- Air Force Weather Agency
- Navy Meteorology and Oceanography Command
- Environment Canada-Meteorological Service of Canada

## The COMET Program Provides:

- Multimedia-Based Distance Learning
- Residence and Hybrid D. L. Courses
- Outreach Program
- International Activities
- University Faculty Courses

## Our Secret

- Sound Science
- +
- Innovative Instructional Design
- +
- Outstanding Graphics
- +
- Operational Focus

## COMET METED Usage

## METED Usage by Domain

## METED Usage by DomainNo .com

- .

## Multimedia-BasedDistance Learning

| Category | Modules 
99-05 | 06 | Total | Content Hours |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| English Language Modules | 105 | 31 | 136 | ~330 |
| NWP Website | ~10 | 5 | 15 | ~60 |
| Foreign Language Modules | 5 | 14 | 19 | ~30 |
| Totals | 120 | 50 | 170 | ~420 |

## The COMET Program and the NPOESS Program

## Improve user awareness of NPOESS activities
Provide information, education, and training opportunities related to polar satellite meteorology
Promote and demonstrate the use of polar satellite data and products
Find and facilitate communities of interest among users

- Provide information, education, and training opportunities related to polar satellite meteorology
- Promote and demonstrate the use of polar satellite data and products
- Find and facilitate communities of interest among users

- COMET’s Objectives for the NPOESS Program

## User Outreach

- NPOESS Curriculum Development Workshop
- 3rd offering
- Hosted by the IPO/COMET team
- Over 20 participants from
- NESDIS
- NWS
- EUMETSAT
- UNIDATA
- MSC ( Canadian Met Service)
- Navy
- AFWA
- Reviewed current offerings
- Identified module topics for future development
- Continuing involvement in refining topics

## The Userport Website

- _[http://](http://meted.ucar.edu/npoess/index.htm)__[meted.ucar.edu/npoess/index.htm](http://meted.ucar.edu/npoess/index.htm)_

## The Userport Website

## Webcast Example: Ocean Wind Speed and Direction

- Webcast Example: Ocean Wind Speed and Direction

## Webcast Example: Ocean Winds

## Polarization Tutorial

## Module Examples: Tropical Cyclone Analysis— 37 and 85 GHz Radiation Through Clouds

- Module Examples: Tropical Cyclone Analysis— 37 and 85 GHz Radiation Through Clouds

## Module Example: Tropical Cyclone Analysis

## Module Example: Tropical Cyclone Analysis

## Microwave Overview 

## Webcast Example: Scatterometry

## Webcast Example: Scatterometry

## Other Modules Produced by the COMET/IPO Team

- NexSat: Preparing Users for the NPOESS/VIIRS Era
- Feature Identification Using Environmental Satellites
- Feature Identification Exercises: Clouds, Snow, and Ice Using MODIS
- An Introduction to the EUMETSAT Polar System
- Imaging with NPOESS VIIRS: A Convergence of Technologies and Experience
- Polar Satellite Meteorology for the Operational Forecaster II: Microwave
- Polar Satellite Meteorology for the Operational Forecaster: III: Case Studies
- Operational Satellite Derived Tropical Rainfall Potential (TRaP)
- Microwave Remote Sensing (series):
- Overview
- Clouds, Precipitation, and Water Vapor
- Sea and Land Surface Applications (in progress)
- Resources

## Contact Information

- _[http://meted.ucar.edu](http://meted.ucar.edu/)_
- _[http://www.comet.ucar.edu](http://www.comet.ucar.edu/)_
- http://www.ipo.noaa.gov
- _[woody@ucar.edu](mailto:woody@ucar.edu)_