Next-Generation McIDAS for Classroom/Laboratory Instruction and Research

纽约州立大学奥尔巴尼分校大气科学系希望通过购买下一代人-机-交互数据访问系统(McIDAS)来提高其本科教学和实验室经验的质量和广度，无论是专业还是非专业。利用这种系统，用户可以有效地处理和分析数字气象卫星图像以及更常规的全球地面和高空气象观测，用于教学、实验室和研究目的。McIDAS将满足两个关键需求。首先，它可以在课堂上使用，让非理科专业的学生接触到可能对他们的日常生活产生影响的科学思想、概念和方法，使他们成为更了解全球天气、气候和环境问题的公民。第二，需要增加大气科学专业本科生通过独立学习、本科生研究项目、天气学实验室应用、课堂项目和问题集以及通过将McIDAS更有效地整合到日常课堂和实验室教学中来接触基本气象概念和解决问题的量化方法的机会。新一代McIDAS解决了这些关键的部门需求，因为WiddeWord工作站内置了本地计算机能力和增强的图形功能。本科教学和实验室体验的质量将大大提高，因为教师将首次能够处理、分析和存档有关的全球天气和气候案例，以供以后的教学和研究之用。此外，教职员工和学生将能够将McIDAS上本地生成的科学软件包应用于实时或存档的数据流，并连接到其他本地或国家计算机系统，用于处理和分析额外数据，以支持特殊实验室和研究项目

The Department of Atmospheric Science at the State University of New York at Albany would like to improve the quality and breadth of its undergraduate teaching and laboratory experience for both majors and non-majors through the purchase of a next-generation Man-Computer-Interactive Data Access System (McIDAS). With such a system users can effectively process and analyze digital meteorological satellite images as well as more conventional meteorological global surface and upper air observations for instructional, laboratory and research purposes. McIDAS will fill two critical needs. First it can be used in the classroom to expose nonscience majors to scientific ideas, concepts and methods that can have impact on their daily lives, allowing them to become more informed citizens about global weather, climate and environmental issues. Second is the need to increase opportunities for undergraduate students majoring in atmospheric science to be exposed to fundamental meteorological concepts and quantitative approaches to problems through independent study, undergraduate research projects, synoptic laboratory applications, classroom projects and problem sets, as well as curriculum enrichment, by integrating McIDAS more effectively into day-to-day classroom and laboratory teaching. The next generation McIDAS addresses these critical Departmental needs because of the local computer power and enhanced graphics capability built into the wideword workstation. The quality of the undergraduate teaching and laboratory experience would be improved considerably because for the first time instructors would be able to process, analyze and archive global weather and climate cases of interest for later instructional and research purposes. Additionally faculty members and students wold be able to apply locally generated scientific software packages on McIDAS to real time or archived datastreams as well as link into other local or national computer systems for the processing and analysis of additional data in support of special laboratory and research projects