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The Unidata Equipment Award came at the perfect time during
the final planning and budgeting of the new facility’s computing needs.
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Our previous weather center consisted of six PCs and
two Sun workstations serving over 100 meteorology majors. We had 50 GB of available storage for data
with which we were able to access surface and upper air data for the past week,
radar data from nearby stations for two days, satellite images for two days,
and model output from three or four models for two days, with no archive
capabilities. In comparison, our data
ingestion now seems limitless, and our students have access to over a dozen
model forecasts. We actively archive surface
and upper air data. Our data storage
capacity allows us to easily keep a week of satellite and radar data (with the
ability to archive special events). We
have recently begun to ingest Level II radar data for use with IDV. The NCEP-NCAR Reanalysis CD-ROMs have been
copied to our server for easy access.
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