The COMET projects involves cooperative research among four NWS forecast offices, St. Louis, MO; Louisville, KY; Paducah, KY; and Slidell, LA and Saint Louis University.  There are two seperate research objectives of this project.  One team of researchers is dealing with the quantitative precipitation forecast (QPF) and quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE) problems within the mid-Mississippi and Ohio River Valleys.  The main objective of this team is to determine those parameters and techniques that help to accurately forecast the areal extent and magnitude of precipitation on a regional scale, evaluate models' QPF, as well as existing QPF methods, and develop a regional climatology of warm and cool season heavy precipitation events for both river valleys.  This team includes the following people:
 

Saint Louis University:        Dr.  James Moore
                                                    Dr.  Scott Rochette (finished Ph.D. 1998)
                                                    Mr.  Stephen Considine (finished M.S. 1998)
                                                    Dr.  Patrick Market (finished Ph.D. 1999)
                                                    Mr.  Stephen Klaus
                                                    Mr.  Scott Watson

Louisville, KY WSFO:          Mr.  Ted Funk
                                                    Mr.  Larry Datillo
                                                    Mr.  Robert Cox
                                                    Mr.  Marty Trexler
                                                    Mr.  Chad Swain

St Louis, MO WSFO:             Mr.  Fred Glass
                                                    Mr.  David Metze
 

Paducac, KY WSO:               Mr.  Michael York
                                                    Mr.  James Keysor
                                                    Mr.  Christopher Jones
                                                    Mr.  Jeff Hovis

Slidell, LA WSFO:                  Mr.  Alan Johnson
 

To find out more about the QPF group click: QPF Group.

    The second research team is studying mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) that produce damaging straight-line surface winds and tornadoes across the mid Mississippi and Ohio River Valleys.  The research objectives of this team are to investigate the structure, evolution, and sensible effects of rear inflow jets (RIJs), "bookend vorticies", tornadic and non-tornadic mesocyclones, mid-altitude radial convergence (MARC) signatures, and multicellular versus supercellular structure associated with linear and bow-shaped MCSs.  Members of this research team include the following people:
 

Saint Louis University:        Dr.  Yeong-Jer Lin
                                                    Mr.  Jaime Kagol (finished M.S. 1998)
                                                    Mr.  Merl Heinlin (finished M.S. 1998)
                                                    Mr.  James O'Sullivan
                                                    Mr.  Jason Martinelli

St Louis WSFO:                      Mr.  Ron Przybylinski
                                                    Mr.  Gary Schomocker
                                                    Mr.  Tom Springs

Louisville, KY WSFO:          Mr.  Ted Funk
                                                    Mr.  Van DeWald
                                                    Mr.  Don Kirkpatrick

Paducah, KY WSO:               Mr.  Pat Spoden
                                                    Mr.  Jeff Hovis
 

To find out more about the High Wind Group click:  HIgh Wind Group .

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