What is MetEd?

The MetEd website, COMET’s signature offering, is a free collection of hundreds of training resources intended for the geoscience community. We deliver over 240,000 hours of online education each year in disciplines such as aviation weather, climate, convective weather, emergency management, hydrology, numerical modeling, satellite meteorology and winter weather, among many others.

A variety of MetEd courses are translated in multiple languages. COMET partners with many international stakeholders and is sponsored by global agencies such as, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC), National Science Foundation (NSF), World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and many more.

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Learn more about the latest COMET MetEd courses. 

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Course Info: Using JPSS CrIS Water Vapor and Air Mass RGB Products

Learn more about the MetEd "Using JPSS CrIS Water Vapor and Air Mass RGB Products" course. Access the course here. 

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Course Info: Private Sector Classroom Scenarios

Learn more about the MetEd “Private Sector Classroom Scenarios” course. Access the course here. 

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Course Info: Dual-Polarization Fundamentals

Learn more about the COMET MetEd "Dual-Polarization Fundamentals" course. Access the course here.

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Course Info: Severe Storms Sleuthing 101: Investigating Science in the Media

Learn more about the COMET MetEd "Severe Storms Sleuthing 101: Investigating Science in the Media" course. Access the course here. 

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Course Info: Estimating Tropical Cyclone Intensity with the Dvorak Technique

Learn more about the COMET MetEd "Estimating Tropical Cyclone Intensity with the Dvorak Technique" course. Access the course here.

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Course Info: Storm Hazards Generator

Learn more about the COMET MetEd "Storm Hazards Generator" course. Access the course here.

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Course Info: Analyzing Snowfall Rate with Satellite

Learn more about the COMET MetEd "Analyzing Snowfall Rate with Satellite" course. Access the course here. 

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Course Info: Satellite Analysis of Fog in Warm Water Areas

Learn more about the "Satellite Analysis of Fog in Warm Water Areas" MetEd course. Access the course here. 

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Course Info: Forecasting Blowing Snow

Learn more about the COMET MetEd "Forecasting Blowing Snow" course. Access the course here.

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Course Info: ASOS and AWOS Explained: Key Differences, Similarities and Uses

Learn more about the COMET MetEd "ASOS and AWOS Explained: Key Differences, Similarities and Uses" course. Access the course here. 

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Course Info: An Introduction to Rating Curves

Learn more about the COMET MetEd "An Introduction to Rating Curves" course. Access the course here.

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Course Info: Satellite and Stability Analyses for Deep Convection Forecasting in the Tropics

Learn more about the COMET MetEd "Satellite and Stability Analyses for Deep Convection Forecasting in the Tropics" course. Access the course here.

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Course Info: An Introduction to Groundwater Level Monitoring

Learn more about the COMET MetEd "An Introduction to Groundwater Level Monitoring" course. Access the course here.

 

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Course Info: Using Satellite Imagery to Identify Cold-Core Upper Air Lows in the Tropical Pacific

Learn more about the COMET MetEd "Using Satellite Imagery to Identify Cold-Core Upper Air Lows in the Tropical Pacific" course. Access the course here.

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Course Info: Introduction to UNIX

Learn more about the COMET MetEd "Introduction to UNIX" course. Access the course here.

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Course Info: Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO): Assessing Midlatitude Subseasonal Impacts

Learn more about the COMET MetEd "Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO): Assessing Midlatitude Subseasonal Impacts" course. Access the course here.

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Course Info: Reading NetCDF Metadata

Learn more about the COMET MetEd "Reading NetCDF Metadata" course. Access the course here.

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Course Info: Visualizing NetCDF Data

Learn more about the COMET MetEd "Visualizing NetCDF Data" course. Access the course here.

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Course Info: Subsetting and Appending NetCDF

Learn more about the COMET MetEd "Subsetting and Appending NetCDF" course. Access the course here.