Weather Analysis Laboratory

该项目旨在在曼卡托州立大学建立一个创新的天气分析实验室。它建立在我们的第一个NSF-ILI赠款（1988年）的经验，并将其扩展到包括更好和更便宜的数据供应选项，使设施更容易长期维持。为了做到这一点，我们需要建立设备之间的一致性和兼容性。我们在1988年选择了来自Kavouras Inc.的Vista显示系统，一家本地制造商，使我们能够在这个校园保持高姿态的天气信息使用即时显示功能在课堂上，每季度暴露400多名学生的利益，看到和分析实时数据在课堂上设置。现在，我们希望在这个基础上，更新我们的实验室。 该项目将旧的气象设施扩大为气象分析实验室，引入一系列Radac工作站，这是一种集成图形工作站（低端），能够提供空中质量的电视图形。有了这个设施，我们将能够准备学生整合当地的天气数据，并提供一个视频录制，幻灯片制作和图形制作设施的数据源。 简而言之，该实验室将通过天气的原理和过程促进科学的教学和学习。 沿着的本地天气数据以及通过卫星连接接收的国家和国际数据流将被收集并在一系列综合工作站中显示。 这些将连接到图形显示控制台，使学生能够分析，创建和呈现各种格式的数据。 实时数据将以数字方式获取，并鼓励学生结合国家数据评估实时天气观测结果。 中尺度模型的使用也将被使用，学生将被教导运行和解释这些和其他模型。 将特别考虑K-12教师的准备。 在曼卡托州立大学，兼职教师参加其他课程，作为他们为生命科学、地理和地球科学教学做准备的一部分。 该项目还直接影响到加强课堂教学和视觉材料的准备，并将进一步为教师服务讲习班创造一个核心设施。此外，本地学校亦有机会透过拨入电话及互联网途径取得有关资料。 我们作为教育机构的地位将得到加强，因为当地社区和商业世界将直接受益。从这个高调的天气分析实验室的回报将是显着的，因为它增加了我们的服务，我们自己的社区和我们的学生将在一个竞争激烈的地区的实习和就业机会的追捧。

This projects seeks to create an innovative weather analysis laboratory at Mankato State University. It builds upon the experience of our first NSF-ILI Grant (1988) and extends it to include better and cheaper options for data supply making the facility easier to sustain in the long run. In order to do this, we need to institute uniformity and compatibility between equipment. Our selection in 1988 of the Vista Display system from Kavouras Inc., a local manufacturer, has enabled us to maintain a high profile of weather information on this campus using the instant display features in classes, each quarter exposing 400+ students to the benefit of seeing and analyzing real-time data in a classroom setting. Now we want to build upon this beginning and update our laboratory. This project enlarges the old Weather Facility into a Weather Analysis Laboratory bringing in a series of Radac Workstations, an integrated Graphics Workstation (low-end), capable of on-air quality TV graphics. With this facility we will be able to prepare students to integrate local weather data and provide a video recording, slide making and graphics production facility from the data sources. In short, the laboratory will facilitate the teaching and learning of science through the principles and processes of weather. Local weather data, along with national and international data streams received over satellite links, will be collected and displayed in an integrated series of workstations. These will be connected to graphics display consoles to enable students to analyze, create, and present data in a variety of formats. Real-time data will be captured digitally, and students will be encouraged to evaluate their real-time weather observations together with national data. The use of mesoscale models will also be used and students will be taught to run and interpret these and other models. Special consideration will be given to the preparation of K-12 teachers. At Mankato State University, preservice teachers take we ather courses as part of their preparation for the teaching of the life sciences, geography and earth sciences. This project also impacts directly upon enhanced classroom teaching and visual materials preparation and will further create a nucleus facility for teacher service workshops. It will also give opportunities for local schools to obtain this data through dial-in and Internet means. Our standing as an educational institution will be enhanced as direct benefits accrue to the local community and commercial world. The payback from this high profile Weather Analysis Laboratory will be significant as it increases our service to our own community and our students will be sought after for internships and employment opportunities in a highly competitive area.