COMET / COMIT- new NWS program

[Keith Mullen]

Hey Y'all. Just got some slightly low-down on the COMET / COMIT programme that NWS is working on for informational educational purposes.

Twould appear to be intertwined with classes and trainings, with reference materials involved.

This would update trainings to live videos and intstruction identification and such to go along with reference.

Not all worked out yet. But if I find more. I will let yall know.

 

[Paul Austin]

Would you be referring to this? If so, it's not new.

The program was established in 1989. I'm not sure how long the modules and other training resources have been available online and to the public, but I've been using them for the last 3 or 4 years. The material is awesome, and it's freely available to anyone, meteorologist or otherwise. You need only register for login purposes. Quizes are also available and completion can be submitted to employers/managers for those working in the met industry.

If you were referring to something else, check out UCAR's COMET program anyway. It's just one more learning resource, and IMHO it's excellent!

 

[Tim Vasquez]

We had to do COMET back in 1993 when we were getting WSR-88D certification. It was a big part of getting forecasters up and running on how to use velocity data, as it was all new technology and of course no university weather programs I'm aware of had taught any subject areas like that. At the time COMET users had to have a DOS PC with a special video card, and that had to be attached to a laserdisc player for the video lessons! It's great what the Internet has done since then.

The quality of COMET is hit or miss, but I definitely recommend it.

Tim