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- UCAR/Unidata - An NSF-Funded Data Software Center for Universities
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- _A_d_d_r_e_s_s:
- UCAR/Unidata Program Center
- P.O. Box 3000
- Boulder, CO 80307
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- _E_m_a_i_l: support@unidata.ucar.edu
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- _P_h_o_n_e: (303) 497-8644
- FAX: (303) 497-8690
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- _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n
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- Unidata is a national program to help universities acquire
- weather data and to analyze and display those data for
- teaching and research. The program is funded by the National
- Science Foundation and managed by the University Corporation
- for Atmospheric Research. Unidata negotiates a group con-
- tract with a commercial data-broadcasting firm so that
- universities may receive weather data at a discount. Uni-
- data develops and distributes software for capturing,
- analyzing, and displaying those data locally. Unidata also
- advocates on behalf of universities on data issues in
- Federal and other arenas.
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- Unidata-developed software includes the Unidata Local Data
- Manager (LDM), which captures real-time weather data from a
- satellite broadcast, and netCDF, a network-transparent,
- self-describing form for storing scientific data. The LDM
- is being enhanced to allow users to capture and forward data
- over the Internet.
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- Unidata distributes applications software developed and
- licensed by universities. These are Purdue University's
- Weather Processor (WXP) and the University of Wisconsin's
- McIDAS-OS2 and McIDAS-X software. WXP and McIDAS-X are
- UNIX-based applications; McIDAS-OS2 runs on PS/2 computers
- with the OS/2 operating system. Unidata also distributes and
- supports the UNIX version of NASA's GEMPAK (for General
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- The information in this section is provided in accor-
- dance with the copyright notice appearing at the front
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- August 20, 1992 NNSC Section 3.23, Page 1
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- Meteorological Package) and a UNIX-based, general-purpose
- data-analysis and image-processing research package called
- YNOT, developed by MacDonald Dettwiler under a Unidata con-
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- Unidata provides bug fixes, upgrades, and software distribu-
- tions over the Internet. Software support includes forming
- and maintaining special-interest mailing lists, offering
- advice on hardware acquisitions, and holding semiannual
- training workshops in the use of Unidata-supported software.
- Consultation with users is conducted via email. The program
- also publishes a quarterly newsletter.
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- _N_e_t_w_o_r_k _A_c_c_e_s_s
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- Unidata is connected via a LAN to NCAR, an NSFNET backbone
- site. All software is distributed via ftp. The Unidata
- NetCDF software is freely available; you can access a
- compressed tar file ("cd incnetcdf.tar.Z" in directory
- "pub") via anonymous ftp from "unidata.ucar.edu".
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- _W_h_o _C_a_n _U_s_e _t_h_e _S_o_f_t_w_a_r_e
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- The Unidata netCDF software is freely available. All other
- Unidata software is restricted to universities and requires
- licenses.
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