^^Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:13:21 -0700 ^^From: lamos ^^To: Announce ^^Subject: New NWS Newsgroups ^^ ^^12 February 2002 ^^ ^^Greetings, ^^ ^^The COMET Program is pleased to announce two new newsgroups: Eta-Discuss ^^and AVN/Global-Discuss. These newsgroups serve to supplement the current ^^selection of online NWP materials with direct interaction among NWP users. ^^Stephen Jascourt and Bill Bua, COMET meteorologists at NCEP, will answer ^^questions about the NCEP Eta model and "Meso" model (used for the "high ^^resolution window run") and the NCEP Global model and facilitate two-way ^^communication between the field and the model developers. ^^ ^^Examples of good topics include (but are not limited to) impacts of model ^^changes, cases when the model is doing something unphysical or ^^unrealistic, workings of model parameterizations, or cases when the model ^^performed outstandingly. Insightful, specific questions from the entire ^^COMET community are encouraged. The newsgroups are available from the ^^MetEd homepage (http://meted.ucar.edu) or can be accessed directly from ^^the NWP Newsgroups homepage ^^(http://meted.ucar.edu/nwp/newsgroups/index.htm). Additionally, these ^^newsgroups are accessible from the NWP PDS Website ^^(http://www.nwstc.noaa.gov/nwstrn/nwp_met.htm). ^^ ^^The COMET Program encourages your feedback on this new forum. You can ^^e-mail the NWP development team at nwp12@comet.ucar.edu or send your ^^comments directly to the newsgroup facilitators, Bill Bua ^^(Bill.Bua@noaa.gov) and Stephen Jascourt (Stephen.Jascourt@noaa.gov). ^^ ^^Sincerely, ^^ ^^Joe Lamos ^^Acting Director ^^COMET Program ^^ ^^For Technical Support assistance for this module, contact: ^^support@comet.ucar.edu