Contributors
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COMET Sponsors
The COMET® Program is sponsored by NOAA National Weather Service (NWS), with additional funding by:
- European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)
- Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC)
- NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS)
- Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (NMOC)
Project Contributors
Authors
- Dr. Arlene Laing — Lead author, UCAR/COMET and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
- Dr. Jenni-Louise Evans — Co-author, The Pennsylvania State University
Senior Project Manager
- Wendy Schreiber-Abshire — UCAR/COMET
Project Lead
- Dr. Arlene Laing — UCAR/COMET
COMET Staff Meteorologist
- Dolores Kiessling — UCAR/COMET
Instructional Design
- Marianne Weingroff — UCAR/COMET
Graphics and Interface Design
- Brannan McGill — UCAR/COMET
- Steve Deyo — UCAR/COMET
- Heidi Godsil — UCAR/COMET
- Bruce Muller — UCAR/COMET
- Marianne Weingroff — UCAR/COMET
- Dolores Kiessling — UCAR/COMET
Multimedia Authoring
- Dolores Kiessling — UCAR/COMET
- Dan Riter — UCAR/COMET
Guest Contributors
- Dr. Mick Pope, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
Contributing Reviewers
- Dr. Chih-Pei Chang — Naval Postgraduate School
- Dr. Sulochana Gadgil — Indian Institute of Science
- Dr. Jay Hobgood — Ohio State University
- Dr. Yuqing Wang — University of Hawaii at Manoa
- Dr. Mark DeMaria — CIRA/RAMM, Colorado State University
- Dr. Vilma Castro — University of Costa Rica
- Dr. Paul Roundy — State University of New York at Albany
- Dr. Matthew Wheeler — Australia Bureau of Meteorology
- Dr. Michael Taylor — University of the West Indies (Mona)
- Dr. Margaret LeMone — National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Dr. Edward Zipser — University of Utah
- Dr. Jeffery Kepert — Bureau of Meteorology, Australia
- Dr. Greg Holland — National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Dr. Ernest Afiesimama — Nigerian Meteorological Agency, Nigeria
- Dr. John McBride — Bureau of Meteorology, Australia
- Dr. Augusto Pereira Filho — University of São Paulo, Brasil
- Dr. Christopher Snyder — NCAR Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology
Regional Study Guide Quiz
- Tsvetomir Ross-Lazarov — UCAR/COMET
- Mark Mulholland — UCAR/COMET
- Malte Winkler — UCAR/COMET
COMET Staff, Summer 2011
Director
- Dr. Timothy Spangler
Administration
- Elizabeth Lessard, Administration and Business Manager
- Lorrie Alberta
- Michelle Harrison
- Hildy Kane
Hardware/Software Support and Programming
- Tim Alberta, Group Manager
- Bob Bubon
- Ken Kim
- Mark Mulholland
- Victor Taberski - Student Assistant
- Chris Webber - Student Assistant
- Malte Winkler
Instructional Designers
- Dr. Patrick Parrish, Senior Project Manager
- Dr. Alan Bol
- Maria Frostic
- Lon Goldstein
- Bryan Guarente
- Dr. Vickie Johnson
- Tsvetomir Ross-Lazarov
- Marianne Weingroff
Media Production Group
- Bruce Muller, Group Manager
- Steve Deyo
- Dan Riter
- Carl Whitehurst
Meteorologists/Scientists
- Dr. Greg Byrd, Senior Project Manager
- Wendy Schreiber-Abshire, Senior Project Manager
- Dr. William Bua
- Patrick Dills
- Matthew Kelsch
- Dolores Kiessling
- Dr. Cody Kirkpatrick
- Dr. Arlene Laing
- Dave Linder
- Dr. Elizabeth Mulvihill Page
- Amy Stevermer
Spanish Translations
- David Russi
NOAA/National Weather Service - Forecast Decision Training Branch
- Anthony Mostek, Branch Chief
- Dr. Richard Koehler, Hydrology Training Lead
- Brian Motta, IFPS Training
- Dr. Robert Rozumalski, SOO Science and Training Resource (SOO/STRC) Coordinator
- Ross Van Til, Meteorologist
- Shannon White, AWIPS Training
Meteorological Service of Canada Visiting Meteorologists
- Brad Snyder