Thanks to a 2015 Unidata Community
Equipment Award grant, combined with matching funds from
Plymouth State University, students working in the weather
lab in Plymouth State's Department of Atmospheric Science & Chemistry
now have 21 new workstations on which to use the Integrated
Data Viewer (IDV) and AWIPS II.
During the 2015-16 academic year, the workstations were
used heavily by students in a variety of classes,
including Synoptic Meteorology, Atmospheric Physics,
Instrumentation & Observations, Mesoscale Meteorology,
Numerical Weather Prediction, Satellite & Radar Meteorology,
and our meteorological computer application class, which
provides in depth instruction with IDV and ISL. Furthermore,
students used the workstations to produce scholarly
research in areas such as atmospheric
rivers, orographic precipitation, and explosive
extratropical cyclone intensification over the North
Pacific.
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