Microcomputer Based Weather Analysis And Display In A Classroom Local Area Network

9352167 Harnack传统的天气实验室材料包括数据principal，学生解码，绘图和分析。 现有的交互式软件在微型计算机上执行这些和其他一些重要任务，从而增加学生对大气层复杂三维运动的理解。 在两个独立的PC工作站上运行的McIDAS（人机交互式数据访问系统）软件所获得的经验表明，新技术可以带入教室，用于完成实时数据的实验室作业。 该项目正在气象实验室教室内建立一个局域网，以便学生在气象学和物理海洋学系提供的两门必修高级实验课程期间以及教员在入门实验课程期间能够使用McIDAS和其他类似软件。 受影响的课程的实验作业正在改变，以便学生获得使用图形天气分析和显示系统的广泛经验。 用于实现这一目标的设备包括一个SUN SPARC系统10（作为文件服务器）以及以太局域网中的四台网关2000 486/DX 2 -50微型计算机（作为学生工作站）。 ***

9352167 Harnack Traditional weather laboratory materials consist of data printouts which the student decodes, plots, and analyzes. Available interactive software performs these and a number of other important tasks on microcomputers thereby increasing student understanding of the complex three dimensional motion of the atmosphere. Experience gained with the McIDAS (Man- computer Interactive Data Access System) software operating on two stand-alone PC workstations makes it clear that the new technology can be brought into the classroom for use in completing laboratory assignments with real-time data. This project is setting up a local area network in the weather laboratory classroom so that McIDAS and other similar software is accessible by students during the two required senior level laboratory courses, and by sophomores in an introductory lab course, offered by the Department of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography. The affected courses' lab assignments are being changed so that the students are gaining extensive experience in the use of graphical weather analysis and display systems. The equipment being used to accomplish this objective includes a SUN SPARCsystem 10 (acting as file server) together with four Gateway 2000 486/DX2-50 microcomputers (acting as student workstations) in an Ethernet local area network. ***