The CIRA-RAMM Team Virtual Laboratory is intended to provide access to interesting sets of digital GOES satellite images to educational institutions, professional forecasters and research scientists.   The datasets are selected from cases under investigation by the Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology (RAMM) Team at CIRA and each will be made available on CIRA's server for a limited period of time before being replaced or supplemented by other case-study datasets.    These files are in McIDAS data format only, making them accessible for those with RAMSDIS (-X), GARP and UNIDATA-McIDAS workstations.    Self-extracting compressed files (with a .EXE extension) are also available, each containing several of the McIDAS-formatted data files.

   In some cases, the meteorological events associated with the data will be discussed and ideas and/or hints about what to look for in the imagery display will be provided.    Links to the currently available cases follow:

31 May 1996 - Pre-Tornadic Environment

31 May 1996 - CO-KS Tornado Event

05 February 1997 - A FASTEX Event (1-min. interval SRSO imagery)

16 January 1997 - A Lake-effect Snow Event (1-min. SRSO)

20 March 1998 - "Killer" Tornado Outbreak in NE GA

25-27 August 1998 - Hurricane Bonnie Near Landfall

05 May 1999 - OK and KS Tornado Outbreak

24-26 January 2000 - "Surprise" East Coast Winter Storm

24-25 July 2000 - Nebraska Supercell Storm (1-min. SRSO)

13 September 1999 - Hurricane Floyd (1-min. SRSO)


RAMM Team Contact:
Dave Watson
e-mail - watson@cira.colostate.edu
phone - (970) 491-8446

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