UNIDATA

向国家科学基金会UNIDATA计划提交了一份设备建议，要求购买能够运行威斯康星大学开发的PC-McIDAS软件的微型计算机系统。PC-McIDAS硬件/软件系统将在IBM彩色图形屏幕上以动画形式提供实时可见、红外和水蒸气卫星图像。介绍了该系统在教学、科研和气象界的应用。该系统将与我们目前的MASSCOMP微型计算机集成，该计算机目前处理来自FAA-604数据线的数据，使我们的学生能够全面诊断和分析天气系统，直到运动的中尺度。此外，该系统将扩大我们在中气象学、强风暴预报、热带气象学、卫星气象学和辐射过程等领域的研究潜力。最后，还举例说明了开发的实验室菜单和其他气象软件，以说明圣路易斯大学可以如何为工发数据中心的全部工作作出贡献。总的来说，这项提案的目标是更新圣路易斯大学的天气接收设备，并为未来气象学家的教育创造一个交互式图形计算环境。拟议的系统将帮助我们维持一个强大的、相关的气象项目，这是20世纪90年代培养气象学家所必需的。

An equipment proposal is submitted to the NSF UNIDATA program for the purchase of a microcomputer system capable of running the PC-McIDAS software developed by the University of Wisconsin. The PC-McIDAS hardware/software system will provide real-time visible, infrared and water vapor satellite imagery in an animated form in color on an IBM color graphics screen. Applications of this system to teaching, research and the meteorological community are described in the proposal. This system will be integrated with our current MASSCOMP mini- computer, which presently handles data from the FAA-604 data line, to permit our students to fully diagnose and analyze weather systems down to mesoscales of motion. In addition, this system will broaden our areas of research potential in mesometeorology, severe storm prediction, tropical meteorology, satellite meteorology and radiative processes. Finally, examples of developed lab-menus and other meteorological software are given to demonstrate ways in which St. Louis University may contribute to the total UNIDATA effort. Overall, the goal of this proposal is to update St. Louis University's weather receiving equipment and create an interactive graphics computing environment for the education of future meteorologists. The proposed system will help us maintain a strong, relevant meteorology program necessary for the training of meteorologists in the 1990's.