UNIDATA: Implementation of the UNIDATA PC McIDAS Weather System into the Broadcast Meteorology Program

已提供资金购买三个UNIDATA PC-McIDAS工作站，用于加强密西西比州立大学广播气象学方案的教学和研究工作。该项目旨在通过校内和校外课程培训电视预报员。PC-McIDAS工作站将通过卫星接收天气图和图像，并摄取、存储、循环、分析和打印所要求的数据。广播气象学专业的教师和学生将在课堂和实验室环境中使用校内学生的数据，并在校外学生中使用录像带格式的数据。本科和研究生气象学课程以及专为中等教育学生开设的气象学课程将利用这些数据。目前由教师和学生进行的一系列研究将随着新工作站的增加而增加，并且创建本地天气预报的能力也将扩大。PC-McIDAS内的天气图形亦会传送至各大学的主机，然后透过乙太网路通讯系统传送至校园内的其他终端机，从而持续监测当前的天气活动。气象数据和信息也将通过互联网系统在密歇根州立大学和其他气象大学之间交换。

Funds are provided for the purchase of three UNIDATA PC-McIDAS work stations to be used to enhance the teaching and research efforts within the Broadcast Meteorology Program at Mississippi State University. This program is designed to train television weathercasters through on-campus and off-campus courses. The PC-McIDAS work stations will receive weather charts and imagery via satellite and ingest, store, loop, analyze, and print the requested data. Broadcast Meteorology Program faculty and students will utilize the data in both the classroom and laboratory settings for on-campus students and in video tape format for off- campus students. Undergraduate and graduate meteorology courses and special meteorology courses for secondary education students will utilize the data. The current array of research being conducted by both faculty and students will increase with the new work stations and the ability to create local weather forecasts will expand. The weather graphics in the PC-McIDAS will also be transmitted to the Universities' mainframe and then sent to other terminals across campus through the Ethernet communication system, allowing a continuous monitoring of the current weather activity. Weather data and information will also be exchanged between MSU and other meteorological universities through the internet system.