Antarctic Meteorological Research Center

南极气象研究中心（AMRC）是 科学与工程技术三大研究中心 中心在麦克默多，是一个气象研究和资源， 改进天气预报业务的试验台。 那个人- 计算机交互式数据存取系统（McIDAS），一个通用的 一种用于组织、操作和集成的基于计算机的系统 南极环境数据将构成AMRC的基础。 它将 从极地轨道获取气象信息流 卫星、自动气象站、业务站 天气观测和研究项目数据。 它还将 接收环境数据产品，如天气预报， 从南极洲以外，并将作为现有的储存库， 存档数据库。 第一期工程将于一九九二至九三年度夏季开始，包括 工作站的安装和操作， 并显示基于现有卫星图像的AVHRR数据 采集系统 第二阶段将包括收购和 整合一个系统，将提供数据收集，数据 显示和存档，科学应用，网络通信， 阳离子和远程用户访问。 年由威斯康星州大学开发的McIDAS系统 七十年代中期，从各种来源获取气象数据： 标准天气观测、无线电探空仪廓线、卫星- 基于可见光和红外线图像的大气剖面反演 来自多光谱扫描传感器，以及非标准数据， TOMS臭氧数据、SAR海冰信息和AWS网络 意见。 该系统自动登记，校准， （通过地理坐标）定位所摄取的信息， 允许用户在工作站操作数据库。 的 操作包括扇区化、假色、增强， 亮度拉伸、叠加、循环、差分， 非常明确地与天气学研究有关， 天气预报 该系统主要基于 极地轨道器提供的数据流（AVHRR/HRPT和DMSP）， 由于地球同步卫星的视角如此之大， 非常低。 充分利用McIDAS功能， 制作气象资料产品， 研究将包括数据传输和通信 例如，澳大利亚气象局 （ABOM）、威斯康星州空间科学与工程大学 舰队数值海洋学中心（Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center，FNOC） 欧洲中期天气中心（European Center for Medium Range Weather） 预测（ECMRWF），阅读，英国

The Antarctic Meteorological Research Center (AMRC), one of three research centers in the Science and Engineering Technology Center at McMurdo, is a resource for meteorological research and a test bed for improving operational synoptic forecasting. The Man- Computer Interactive Data Access System (McIDAS), a versatile computer-based system for organizing, manipulating, and integrating antarctic environmental data will form the basis of AMRC. It will capture the flow of meteorological information from polar orbiting satellites, automatic weather stations, operational station synoptic observations, and research project data. It will also receive environmental data products, such as weather forecasts, from outside Antarctica, and will act as a repository for existing archived data bases. Phase I, to begin in the 1992-93 summer season, consists of the installation and operation of work stations that can manipulate and display AVHRR data based on the existing satellite imagery acquisition system. Phase II will consist of the acquisition and integration of a system that will provide data collection, data display and archiving, scientific applications, network communi- cations, and remote user access. The McIDAS system, developed at the University of Wisconsin in the mid-1970's, ingests meteorological data from various sources: standard synoptic observations, radiosonde profiles, satellite- based visible and infra-red imagery, atmospheric profiles inverted from multi-spectral scanning sensors, and non-standard data such as TOMS ozone data, SAR sea ice information, and the AWS network observations. The system automatically registers, calibrates, and locates (by geographical coordinates) the ingested information and allows a user at a work station to manipulate the data base. The manipulations include sectorization, false color, enhancements, brightness stretching, overlays, looping, differencing, and are quite definitely keyed to synoptic meteorological research and weather forecasting. The antarctic system is based primarily on data streams provided by polar orbiters (AVHRR/HRPT and DMSP), since the look angles from geostationary satellites are so extremely low. The full utilization of McIDAS capabilities in producing meteorological data products useful in both forecasting and research will include a data transfer and communications capability to, for example, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (ABOM), the University of Wisconsin Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC), the Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center (FNOC), Monterey, and the European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMRWF), Reading, U.K.