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

项目目标是增强学生对复杂气象原理的可视化，向学生介绍数值天气预报和计算机模型的原理，全面参与Unidata项目，并促进教职员工和学生使用高速计算机平台进行研究。这些目标将使用Unidata基于OS/2的McIDAS和基于Unix的科学数据管理(SDM)系统来实现。向能够运行Unidata的SDM系统的基于Unix的工作站提供资金。这项要求将显著增强国内Data Plus电路的处理能力。在林登对McIDAS数据流的处理将通过购买两台PC计算机进行升级，扩大以前购买的4台IBM PS/2(1987年NSF Grant CSI-8750236)的网络，这些计算机被略微配置为处理数据流。在SDM和McIDAS卫星图像和网格场的显示中，使用WXP程序同时显示雷达和常规数据将提高计算机的速度，目前的交互式计算机程序和模型可以在与个别课程相兼容的时间框架上运行。数值预报方法可以向高水平的学生演示。速度更快的计算机和新数据将促进未来的学生和教师的研究项目，同时加强现有的研究项目。

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.