[Skywarn] COMET class in Marine Weather

[Lloyd Colston]

The COMET Program is pleased to announce the publication of the new lesson,
"Marine Weather Services Incident Response and Decision Support". Oil and
hazardous materials spills along coastlines and in rivers require specific
response and clean-up operations. Environmental factors including weather,
waves, and tides are critical to these operations. To support the incident
response, National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters provide detailed
marine forecasts. This lesson is intended to provide marine forecasters
with an overview of what happens during a spill and the types of weather
and seas information that stakeholders need. The lesson uses the 2014 Texas
City "Y" spill in the Galveston Bay to provide examples of a spill timeline
as well as effective decision support products for communicating
information to responders.

The intended audience for Marine Weather Services Incident Response and
Decision Support is any operational forecaster who may be tasked with
providing briefings or other information to support incident response
efforts. Please follow this link to the MetEd description page that
provides additional information and a link to begin the lesson:
<a href="http://meted.ucar.edu/training_module.php?id=1117">Marine Weather
Services Incident Response and Decision Support</a>.

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https://www.meted.ucar.edu/resources_faq.php

We welcome any comments or questions you may have regarding the content,
instructional approach, or use of this lesson. Please e-mail your comments
or questions to Amy Stevermer (asteverm at ucar.edu) or Alan Bol (alanbol
at ucar.edu).
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