Unidata 2003

大学大气研究公司的Unidata计划中心（UPC）使学术机构能够获得实时大气数据，并采用先进的软件来使用它们。 UPC提供支持服务，包括培训、故障排除、文档和元数据，以及促进社区范围对话的研讨会、电子邮件列表和网页。 UPC继续开发软件，以提高易用性和与更多数据访问的更大兼容性，并倡导自由和开放的数据交换。 这种兼容性除了使解码器和应用程序适应于分析和显示数据之外，还需要开发互联网数据分发系统，以纳入新的来源;处理更高的数据速率;自动调整自身以适应用户需求的变化;动态地适应互联网性能的变化;以及利用联网的进步，如多播协议。

The Unidata Program Center (UPC) at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research enables academic institutions to acquire real-time atmospheric data and employ sophisticated software to use them. UPC offers support services that encompass training, troubleshooting, documentation, and metadata, as well as workshops, electronic mailing lists, and Web pages that stimulate community-wide dialogues. UPC continues to develop software for improved ease-of-use and greater compatibility with more data access and advocating free and open data exchange. Such compatibility entails, beyond adapting decoders and applications to analyze and display the data, development of the Internet Data Distribution system to incoporate new sources; to handle higher data rates; to adjust itself automatically to variations in user demands; to adapt dynamically to Internet performance variations; and to exploit networking advances, such as multicast protocols.