UNIDATA: Enhancement of Undergraduate Meteorology Education Through UNIDATA's OS/2 and UNIX-based Workstations

UNIDATA：通过 UNIDATA 的 OS/2 和基于 UNIX 的工作站加强本科气象学教育

• 批准号: 9120410
• 负责人: Patrick Gannon
• 金额: $ 1.45万
• 依托单位: Lyndon State College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-09-01 至 1994-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9120410&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: UNIDATA; Enhancement; Undergraduate; Meteorology; Education

Project objectives are to enhance student visualization of complex meteorological principles, introduce students to the principles of numerical weather prediction and computer models, participate fully in the Unidata project and facilitate faculty and student research using high speed computer platforms. These objective will be met using Unidata's OS/2-based McIDAS and UNIX- based Scientific Data Management (SDM) systems. Funds are provided to a UNIX-based workstation capable of running Unidata's SDM system. This requisition will significantly enhance the processing of the Domestic Data Plus circuit. Processing of the McIDAS data stream at Lyndon will be upgraded by the acquisition of two PC computers, augmenting a network of 4 previously acquired IBM PS/2s (1987 NSF Grant CSI-8750236) which are marginally configured to process the data stream. Simultaneous windowed displays of radar and conventional data using the WXP program in the SDM and McIDAS displays of satellite imagery and gridded fields will speed computers, present interactive computer programs and models can be run on time frames compatible with individual class sessions. Numerical prediction methods can be demonstrated to upper level students. The faster computers and new data will foster future student and faculty research projects while enhancing current ones.

该项目的目标是提高学生对复杂气象原理的直观认识，向学生介绍数值天气预报和计算机模型的原理，充分参与Unidata项目，并利用高速计算机平台促进教师和学生的研究。这些目标将通过Unidata基于OS/2的McIDAS和基于UNIX的科学数据管理（SDM）系统来实现。资金提供给一个基于unix的工作站，能够运行Unidata的SDM系统。这一要求将大大提高国内数据加电路的处理能力。Lyndon的McIDAS数据流处理将通过购买两台PC计算机来升级，增加了先前购买的4台IBM PS/2s（1987年NSF Grant CSI-8750236）的网络，这些计算机被配置为处理数据流。同时使用SDM中的WXP程序显示雷达和常规数据，McIDAS显示卫星图像和网格场，将加快计算机速度，呈现交互式计算机程序和模型，可以在与个别课程兼容的时间框架上运行。数值预测方法可以向高年级学生演示。更快的计算机和新的数据将促进未来的学生和教师的研究项目，同时加强当前的项目。